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Latino Mothers Have Healthiest Babies

By AAN Staff
january 27, 2003  09:38 am
Latino Mothers Have Healthiest Babies
In public health circles, it's called the Mexican paradox: despite high poverty rates and a lack of prenatal care, Latina women -- especially Mexican women -- have healthier babies than Caucasian or African-American women, Independent Weekly's Barbara Solow writes. However, that advantage goes away the longer they live here. So far, the cause is believed to be a combination of community and family support, healthy diets, high rates of breastfeeding and low rates of smoking and drinking during pregnancy. Public health experts are perplexed and studying this phenomenon to see what it says about American culture.
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