Vit D and Iron are both pushed pretty hard by pediatricians in the US - a *lot* of the questions in the various breastfeeding fora are "my doctor says my kid needs [D/iron] but I can't afford it, do I have to do it anyway?"
The answer is basically "not if you're white and can get 10 mins of daylight on the hands and face daily".
Do kids in Oakland stay out of the sun more because it's harsher? seems unlikely.
There's also the weaning-malnutrition phenomenon, though I don't know if that's in America's poor population or just urban undeveloped countries'. It's more common among breastfed babies because they are weaned off infant-appropriate milk at an earlier age than formula-fed babies.
And then there's the toddler-weaning malnutrition among the world's rural poor, when the toddler is weaned because the mother is pregnant but the non-milk diet available is inadequate, so the healthiest child in the family is the youngest.
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Date: 2007-05-13 08:46 pm (UTC)The answer is basically "not if you're white and can get 10 mins of daylight on the hands and face daily".
Do kids in Oakland stay out of the sun more because it's harsher? seems unlikely.
There's also the weaning-malnutrition phenomenon, though I don't know if that's in America's poor population or just urban undeveloped countries'. It's more common among breastfed babies because they are weaned off infant-appropriate milk at an earlier age than formula-fed babies.
And then there's the toddler-weaning malnutrition among the world's rural poor, when the toddler is weaned because the mother is pregnant but the non-milk diet available is inadequate, so the healthiest child in the family is the youngest.