Mothers Breastfed: Canada Asia and Support Breastfeeding

mothers breastfed: It is a human right, it saves lives and improves the prosperity of economies, Canada-based health economics expert Dylan Walters said about the importance of breastfeeding, according to The Japan Times. Walters, who led the study of more than 100 countries, said the website is the first of its kind and is aimed to help policymakers to measure economic losses in individual countries when they do not support breastfeeding. A new website developed by researchers in Canada and Asia showed that the world could save 341 billion each year if mothers breastfed their children for longer, helping prevent early deaths and various diseases. ; The online tool at aliveandthrive.org, known as the Cost of Not Breastfeeding, used data from a six-year study supported by the U.S.-based maternal and child nutrition initiative Alive & Thrive. The United Nations' World Health Organization recommends that babies be breastfed exclusively at least for their first six months, then have a diet of breast milk and other food until they are 2 years old. But only 40 percent of infants under 6 months old are exclusively breastfed globally, while 820,000 child deaths could be avoided each year if the recommendation is followed, it said. Breastfeeding can help prevent diarrhea and pneumonia two major causes of infant death and protect mothers against ovarian and breast cancer, according to the U.N. agency. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.