Essential Nutrients For Nursing Mothers
Courtesy of The New York Public Library
From 1971 to 1972 Dr. Alvenia M. Fulton wrote “Eating for Your Health and Strength,” a column in the Black-owned-and-operated Chicago Defender about health, healing, and nutrition. In one of her columns she shared, the average diet contain insufficient amounts of vitamin D which aids the body in developing strong bones and teeth. Fulton described vitamin D as essential to children and pregnant and nursing mothers. Cod and halibut liver oil she described as rich source of vitamin D. One can also find small amounts of it in dairy products, salmon, oysters, and sardines (you can obtain vitamin D when you spend time in the sun or under an ultraviolet lamp). She writes, our body needs vitamins and we become a mature when we eat for taste and nutrients.
Based on Food Historian Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie’s Work in Progress
