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Half of China's newborns feed formula powder
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-05-29 16:24
China's breast feeding rates are 48.7 percent and 60.4 percent respectively
in urban and rural areas, indicating that about half of the country's newborns
are fed with artificial-formula milk powder of various kinds, an official on
children's food safety said.
Chen Xuezhong, head of China's leading group for piloting the credibility
system of the children's food industry, said at a recent seminar on food safety
that the quality of children's food determines the health of every child, the
happiness of every family and the future of the whole nation.
Chinese exerts on infant medical science hold that heavy workloads and life
pressures or physical conditions, including the lack of milk, are major reasons
leading to young mothers' failure to breast feed, which was the only choice for
feeding newborns in the old times.
Health experts regard mother's milk as the best and most ideal food for
newborns because it helps babies improve their immune systems.
Though Chinese women have a long tradition of breast feeding, its rate has
dropped greatly in recent years. Many mothers mistakenly believe that using
substitutions, such as various kinds of milk powder available on the market, is
more nutritious, said experts.
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