This week’s fast fact comes from my ongoing academic research. Together with some coauthors, I’m putting together a paper on breastfeeding over time. We’ve smashed together a large number of datasets, and here’s a headline fact: Breastfeeding has gone up a lot since 1970. Based on these data (graph below!), only about 20% of new…

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