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Writer's pictureDr.Akshatha

Supporting breastfeeding : A global health concern .

Human milk science

Providing human milk to tiny humans is a global health issue and collective responsibility

🤱Enabling optimal Breastfeeding alone prevents :

  • over 800,000 childhood deaths globally

  • >98000 plus maternal deaths from cancers and type 2 Diabetic Mellitus

  • 58230 deaths from maternal type 2 Diabetic mellitus alone / year

  • >20000 maternal deaths from breast cancer along

  • >900000 cases of childhood deaths


Breastfeeding


For every 597 women who breast feed one maternal death and one childhood death is prevented in USA


Ref:

Lancet ( 2016, 2021)

Child nutrition ( 2017)


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