"genetics is the loaded gun, but environmental factors pull the trigger"

[anastasiav]

This really interesting blog post is about some children known as the "Fultz Quads" - four daughters born to a black sharecropper and his wife (who was deaf and mute) in 1946.

There's a lot going on in this post, and a lot to be shocked by.

What I'm shocked by is the author's very casual full acceptance of the idea that feeding your baby formula causes breast cancer.

A little more on the Fultz Quads

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[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

What I slso find somewhat disturbing in the blog post is the authors idea that OBVIOUSLY the wife of a poor man with six other children could *easily* breastfeed 4 infants at a time. Jeez.