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.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Breastfeed
• breastmilk
• milk
• formula
• infant
• marketing
• mothers
• health
• nutrition
• UNICEF
• WHO
• DoH
• Philippines

[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."

[mahxien]

@tigoes yes, definitely better than formula.

[gOtHiCxAnGeLxox]

@tigoes - Yep. Still healthier.

[tigoes]

@gOtHiCxAnGeLxox 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...

[Justinian1979]

wikileaks cable: US lobbied vs breastfeeding in the philippines Deputy Chief of Mission Paul Jones, said the embassy's economic counselor met with Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Alex Padilla December 12, 2005 to convince the government to meet with pharmaceutical companies first before signing the revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRRs) of the Milk Code into law.

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[AlisiLivaLiva]

@hasikelee get your facts right, women can exclusively breastfeed and get pregnant!

[breyshannon]

Ummm, no. I have a friend with 8 kids. She has been breastfeeding for 17 years. Spaces them well, but not population control.

[hasikelee]

Um, they have 8 kids because they formula feed! That jump starts their cycles and dries up the milk...which means they can have sex and pregnant almost instantly...the average for a non-breastfeeding woman is 3 months after birth!

Formula does more than kill babies due to being watered down or infected...it also causes artificial birth rates and family distress!

[charitymae15]

nice video. very informative. sana may mga nakitang penalties for those who violates the milk code. Dapat strict ang govt in implementing this program