The decline in natural breastfeeding has also been detected in the Philippines (although they have entered the Guinnes record of simultaneous breastfeeding), while at the same time the increase in profits and sales of artificial milk factories is felt. The deceptive advertising of formula milk is partly to blame, since they freely advertised their artificial milk arguing that it was the best food for raising children.
For a year now the health authorities are struggling to change the national code on milk, for now they want to limit the advertising of companies that make formula milk, in principle the promotion of these products for children under one year was prohibited, but The government wants to expand the margin to two years. According to the director of the WHO (World Health Organization) of the region, Shigeru Omi, resuming the practice of breastfeeding in the Philippines could save 16,000 lives a year. An example they put on the table was what happened in Cambodia, which after the promotion of breastfeeding, infant mortality decreased by 33% in five years.
We hope that the Supreme Court will join the efforts of the government and allow the safeguarding of children's health instead of the pockets of formula milk manufacturers.
