The Healthy People 2000 initiative introduced in the US has set a target of 75% of American infants breast-feeding for at least six months.

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In contrast, infants accustomed to the hydrolysate formula appeared relaxed and happy while feeding and drank more of it.

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Many teaching in medical schools today were raised in the better-living-though-chemistry age, when infant formula was thought to trump the attributes of breast milk. (Formula was certainly an improvement over the non-pasteurized cow's milk that killed many infants at the turn of the 20th century, when breast-feeding was not in vogue).

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