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Reader comment on: Krugman and Obama on Infant Nutrition
in response to reader comment: Good point

Submitted by Vince (United States), Feb 18, 2011 23:57

Once again the author of this article is not fully informed of what the WIC program is about. It looks like if a person is going to write an article about a subject they should at least be fully informed of all the angles of the subject. The WIC program's main goal is to educate and encourage women to breast-feed and counsel them on nutrition for them and their children. So, WIC does not encourage formula intake. Formula is there in case clients of WIC decide not to breast-feed.

Also, if women of WIC breast-feed they receive more vouchers for free food. I know this, as I am a nutritionist for WIC.

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the elephant in the room [w/response] [95 words]	davesnot here	Feb 22, 2011 10:12
WIC [w/response] [148 words]	Vince	Feb 18, 2011 23:48
↔ Why would it cost more in 2010? [64 words]	editrix	Feb 20, 2011 04:53
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↔ ⇒ WIC [w/response] [112 words]	Vince	Feb 18, 2011 23:57
↔ Rich isn't numeric [98 words]	Shannon Love	Feb 19, 2011 00:28
↔ re: WIC [126 words]	Jill C	Feb 21, 2011 18:06
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