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Many children can't be breast fed or have mothers who are unable to. Don't generalize.

• wooster 13y ago
  Suboptimum breastfeeding still accounts for an estimated 1.4 million deaths in children under five annually http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/index_breastfeeding.html http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/index_breastfeeding.html
  • jamesaguilar 13y ago
    Where most of these are just a subtype of malnutrition, if I don't miss my guess. If they only counted babies who die because they are fed with the adequate amount of formula instead of breastfeeding, that number would probably be vanishingly small. Unfortunately, the cited paper is not freely available, so I cannot check.
    • wooster 13y ago
      … a subtype of malnutrition related to not breastfeeding enough. See my other post for some examples of the research that's been done in the area of infant mortality and insufficient breastfeeding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5619120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5619120
      • jamesaguilar 13y ago
        Yeah, Rayiner's response seems to fairly well reflect my thoughts on your citations.