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Fight malnutrition with breast milk

22 February, 2012 05:13:00 All4women

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Child malnutrition would decrease by 25 percent if babies were fed only breast milk in the first six months, a United Nations Children's Fund nutrition specialist said on Wednesday.

Chantell Witten was speaking at the Save the Children's launch of a new report called "A life free of hunger: Tackling Child Nutrition".

South Africa has the world's lowest proportion of breast feeding mothers

Witten said about 70 percent of babies were being fed solids at two …

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