Breast-feeding children rather than using milk substitutes would add more than US$300 billion a year to the global economy, releasing money to deal with issues such as hunger, education and the environment, according to a study.
The effects on children's long-term health and cognition are so great that the authors of the study, published in The Lancet last month (30 January), say that improving breast-feeding rates would help achieve a number of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
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