• Pipoca@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Seems like a weird mix of hygiene rules (don’t unwrap the baby, don’t touch the telephone after cleaning your hands in alcohol for feeding time), superstitions (no candy), and restrictive rules (only one visitor, have the name already picked out)

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      7 months ago

      Apparently dietary science in the 1940s viewed sugars much more dimly than is popular today.