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...Breast v. Bottle. Two years ago, a British journalist named Mike Muller first suggested publicly that powdered-formula manufacturers contributed to the death of Third World infants by hard-selling their products to people incapable of using them properly. In a 28-page pamphlet, Muller accused the industry of encouraging mothers to give up breast feeding, but added the qualification that other factors, such as working at a job, influence women to switch to bottle feeding...
...idea of demanding that wine be sold through doctors or pharmacies because hundreds of thousands of people get drunk on it and sometimes cause fatal accidents." Nestle officials insist that their advertising has always stressed, as one billboard in Nigeria puts it, that BREAST MILK IS BEST. Often, however, mothers themselves are undernourished and must supplement their own milk with formula. Nestlé was also a principal architect of an ethical code recently adopted by nine infant-food producers. The code requires that promotional materials in the Third World adequately educate illiterate consumers...
Cyclopean Breast. Even when a Spanish painter lived away from Spain, he could keep a peculiarly Iberian fla vor. Such was the case with Ribera, who spent most of his working life in Italy, becoming the most gifted of Caravaggio's followers and the best artist in 17th century Naples. His portrait of Magdalena Ventura, the bearded lady of the Abruzzi, exposing one cyclopean breast as her worn husband looks on, belongs to the same Spanish tradition of dispassionate curiosity about freaks as Velasquez's court dwarfs and idiots...
...just concerned with estrogen and breast cancer or estrogen and uterine cancer--we're concerned with estrogen and mortality," MacMahon said...
...Breast cancer research has been ongoing at the Harvard School of Public Health since 1958, MacMahon said...