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“A Chicago study of 20,000 infants, all from poor families, all under the supervision of local welfare clinics, revealed that at nine months of age the artificially fed infants were 50 times more likely to die than those who were still breastfeeding.” quote by Gabrielle Palmer — Download Open image

““A Chicago study of 20,000 infants, all from poor families, all under the supervision of local welfare clinics, revealed that at nine months of age the artificially fed infants were 50 times more likely to die than those who were still breastfeeding.””

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