Formula for Disaster Part 1

This eye-opening documentary reveals how the marketing of powdered milk has caused fewer mothers to breastfeed in the Philippines - including those who can ill afford artificial milk and suffer its harmful consequences. The milk companies' formula for profits is a formula for disaster.

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[oneloved1]

WHO: "Only under exceptional circumstances can a mothers milk be considered unsuitable for her infant. For those few health situations where infants cannot, or should not, be breastfed, the choice of the best alternative expressed breast milk from an infants own mother, breast milk from a healthy wet-nurse or a human-milk bank, or a breast-milk substitute fed with a cup, which is a safer method than a feeding bottle and teat depends on individual circumstances."

[oneloved1]

WHO in 2002: "To achieve optimal growth, development and health, infants should be EXCLUSIVELY BREASTFED FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF LIFE. Thereafter, to meet their evolving nutritional requirements, infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods while breastfeeding continues for UP TO TWO YEARS of age or beyond."

[David Scidmore]

If you don't have time or money to kids then don't. It's very simple.

[Angie Rodgers]

Yes because the breast is a natural filter. And protects babies by giving anti-bodies. Do some more research please on facts and stop giving biased comments.

[vegeboxme]

Check your facts. Do chemicals in breastmilk stay in the baby or are they bound by the living breastmilk and excreted? I think you may be surprised. Thingas are not as simple as you think.

[haruko haruhara]

I dont agree 

[harukolabe]

great video.. thanks for uploading

[mahxien]

yes, definitely better than formula.

[gOtHiCxAnGeLxox]

- Yep. Still healthier.

[tigoes]

Do you really think breastfeeding is better for baby health when you take in account all the chemicals we all adsorb everyday?

[gOtHiCxAnGeLxox]

If they're so poor then why would they bother spending what little money they have on formula? Hm? Because, in my mind, breastfeeding tends to be a lot cheaper...