The role of breastfeeding in a bottle‐oriented world†

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Abstract
In underdeveloped and developing countries, children are malnourished and even dying from protein‐deficiency and weanling diarrhoea as early as three months of age. This tragic condition is related to the reduction or discontinuance of breastfeeding, the contamination of supplementary milk, and an over‐dilution of costly commercial milks. Four socio‐economic classes with different problems and values about breastfeeding are delimited: The Total Breastfeeder (village), The Emerging Bottle Feeder (town), The Elite Bottle Feeder (city), and The Breastfeeder in a Bottle Feeding World (suburban). Distinct ways of dealing with the problems of malnutrition and mortality, including government and industrial involvement, are suggested for each subgroup.

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