Developing Interest in Infant Care and Nutrition
Over the next eight years Dr Truby King had interests in psychology, medicine, agriculture, horticulture, child care and alcoholism. He began to realise that principals of nutrition applied across many disciplines. He spent a winter in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War and returned with his dream clarified, having noticed how healthy infants were due to 12 to 18 months of breastfeeding. On his return he began to use his access as a Justice of the Peace to licensed baby-boarding homes where typical conditions moved him to establish such a boarding facility himself at his Karitane residence.
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