Bottle or breast for babies?

Sir, Breast-feeding (times 2, Sept 29) is honed by evolution to be the healthiest way to nurture the human baby, and it is now more than three years since the Department of Health’s policy followed World Health Organisation research, showing that babies are healthiest fed on milk alone for the first six months of life. The lack of breast-feeding in the face of a barrage of formula advertising is causing the deaths of 1.5 million babies worldwide. .

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