Hi Magda,
Are you pointing out that there are a number of possible factors that were
involved in the increase in BF rates in the 70's or that it is likely that
LLL, NMAA etc had nothing/ limited input into the increase in BF rates in
NZ, Aust, US etc?
Karleen Gribble
Australia
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>
> >James Smibert had a graph showing the parallel increase in bf and growth
of
> NMAA, that he used in his lectures to med students.<
>
> Just thought I would state the obvious:  the two curves may parallel each
> other because they are *both* responding to (a)nother factor(s).
>
> For some years Mike Woolridge showed a slide when he spoke which showed
that
> the decline (1960's) and rise (from 1970) of breastfeeding initiation
rates
> in the UK (I think it was UK, could have been England) paralleled the
> decline and rise of consumption of brown bread.  His point -- that maybe
the
> increase in bf was to do with general societal factors:  interest in
health
> and feeling of personal responsibility for own health, back to nature,
> sophisticated marketing of different ideas/products to different classes,
> etc., write your own script here, just as the swing to and from white
bread
> was.

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