Infant Mortality on the rise.

In my experience the vegetarians and occasional vegan families that I visited usually had a more balanced diet with plenty of fresh foods than many carnivores. S Asian children are often lacking in Vit D but supplemented with infant vitamin drops readily available. I do wonder about this now with the scarcity of health visitors.

I realise that this is second hand information, but someone I know works as a doctor in a UK hospital, and says that most of the Asian population in the catchment originate from a couple of villages in Bangladesh (as does she). There is a lot of inter-familial marriage, and a lot of genetic problems as a result. The BBC commissioned an investigation into the issue, and made a documentary.

I'm not entirely sure that this is the same one, but it does cover the problem of cousins marrying through the generations:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyNP3s5mxI8

This could explain some of the increase in infant mortality, in that community at least.

My experience is of Bradford and the evidence there is that the incidence of cousin marriage has decreased in the last 10 years for various reasons. Children born in this country are less accepting of arranged marriage, along with better education, to name two.

Farzanah

My experience is of Bradford and the evidence there is that the incidence of cousin marriage has decreased in the last 10 years for various reasons. Children born in this country are less accepting of arranged marriage, along with better education, to name two.

To be fair, now I think about it, it is probably about 10 years since my friend told me about this. Time flies, doesn't it?