PEDIATRICS Vol. 47 No. 3 March 1971, pp. 489-490
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INFANT FEEDING IN THE NINETEEN SEVENTIES

L. J. Filer Jr. M.D., Ph.D.1

1 Professor of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa

We are now obviously in what the microbiologist would call a log phase of growth in nutritional knowledge, following a long incubation. In the last two decades infant feeding in the hospital and home has changed drastically, but as yet the changes are largely similar to those observed for other food purchases and use by hospitals and housewives. Prepared formulas have essentially replaced the hospital formula room and the daily home preparation of an infant formula from evaporated milk with added carbohydrate. This is similar in principle to the hospital purchase of pre-prepared foods or meals or the housewife's use of cake mixes.