An article in a 1981 issue of the New York Times covering the infant formula “controversy” discusses a Jamaican mother who had been instructed to not breastfeed her two youngest children. Their diets since birth had been formula. With a family income of roughly US$7 a week, the mother had to dilute the costly formula to make it last longer. It was described how one tin of formula should feed one child for 2-3 days. The mother said she made that one tin last 2 weeks to feed both children.