Breastfeeding and good nutrition in the first two years of life could keep two million children from dying every year in the developing world, the UN Children's Fund said on Monday.
The deaths of around 5,500 children every day and the chronic illness and lost opportunities for millions more could be avoided with the right combination of food, UNICEF said in a statement timed with the start of World Breastfeeding Week.
An estimated 63 per cent of children under six months in the developing world are not adequately breastfed, which leaves them with limited defences against killer diseases like pneumonia and diarrhoea, UNICEF said.
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