Healthy Mom equals Healthy Breastmilk |Repost

Healthy Mom equals Healthy Breastmilk
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By RUTH MANIMTIM-FLORESCA
August 20, 2011, 8:00am
MANILA, Philippines -- Early this month, UNICEF came out with a study that shows that breastfeeding could lead to a 13 percent decrease in deaths among children under five. That is, if infants were exclusively breastfed for the first six months and continued to be breastfed for up to two years.

Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director, stresses that breastfeeding can save a baby’s life. “No other preventive intervention is more cost effective in reducing the number of children who die before reaching their fifth birthdays.”"

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1 comment:

Jag said...

Breastfeeding is always good for babies...and also birth spacing for the mother to gain more nutrients...

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