Milk Programs: Helpful or Harmful to Negro Children?
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Paige, David M.; Bayless, Theodore M.; Graham, George G.
- Source
- American Journal of Public Health; Nov1972, Vol. 62 Issue 11, p1486-1488, 3p
- Subject
- African American children
Adult-child relationships
Milk programs
Food relief
Milk depots
Milk consumption
Lactase
Public health
United States
- Language
- ISSN
- 00900036
Certain Negro children who reject milk exhibit biologic differences from other children. These factors operate beyond the social and economic determinants that act against the consumption of milk. It appears that the number of such children is large enough to call for a review of the efficacy of present milk programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]