Breast is best

Breastfeeding confers specific nutritional benefits to infants that extend to improved cognitive development during childhood and health benefits during adulthood. EXTENSIVE research all over the world has documented compelling evidence that breastfeeding provides diverse advantages for infants, mothers, families and society. These advantages include health, nutritional, immunologic, developmental and psychological, as well as social, economic and environmental, benefits. In spite of these well-recognised benefits, the percentage of Malaysian mothers who breastfeed their infants exclusively up to six months has been shown to be low. This rate has also been on the decline in recent years. In...