A blockbuster pair of reports published in a leading medical journal last month drove home the dogma that "breast is best," estimating that if more women breastfed their infants, hundreds of billions of dollars would be saved.
The numbers were staggering: If women -- in rich and poor countries alike -- were to breastfeed for six months, 823,000 children's deaths would be averted. Breastfed children would be smarter, too – enough to account for $302 billion in global productivity each year, the lion's share coming from high-income countries like the U.S.
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