Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special
Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».
Even as more children lived in poverty, the city saw a 5 percent drop in the number of families receiving formula and other nutritional assistance from the
Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Woman, Infants and Children (WIC).