Perhaps you are going to the wrong physician.
That is no excuse to condemn all physicians.
My friends all go to different ones. It seems to be a general tendency for this to happen across the board.
Your comment about mineral deficiency is interesting, though.
No way formula feeding is equivalent to nursing nutritionally, and with the refined, processed diets Americans tend to eat, likely mineral deficiency has been going on for some generations and it could be that it’s just catching up to us.
I know my mom didn’t eat well and my generation was even worse. I was really particular about nutrition while being pregnant and feeding my kids as toddlers. They’re fine; well, more than fine, very healthy, two what I’d call robust.
I also wonder what role hydrogenated vegetable oil might play in all this? It’s use became so widespread during the late 50’s and through the next decades. It was considered better for you than lard. What many people don’t realize is the role fats play in neurological development. If you’re not ingesting enough lipids or the fats you are ingesting aren’t being properly digested because they’re not real food, I could see that causing problems. Babies on vegan diets suffer from failure to thrive. Cholesterol is required for proper brain development. Could not eating foods closest to their natural state be part of this?
That would be a very difficult link to confirm with the almost universal use of hydrogenated vegetable oil in this country.