Mother’s Milk Is Best

Re: “It’s the Next Best Thing to Mother’s Milk” (April 22): The assertion that infant formula is the “next best thing” to mother’s milk is analogous to saying that a steady diet of fast food and soda is the next best thing to fruits and vegetables.

Unfortunately, far too many mothers believe this view.

It is the rare mother who cannot breast-feed, but many mothers are told, probably by doctors, that formula is just as good.

What a shame that in our country many children, our future leaders, are beginning life without the milk that nature intended.

TRICIA SHORE

Van Nuys