low calorie diet

In a third world country such as the Philippines where more than 50 percent of the population live below poverty line (defined in terms of a least-cost consumption basket of food that provides 2,016 calories and 50 grams of protein per day and of nonfood items consumed by families in the lowest quintile of the population), it is so disheartening, not to mention shocking, to know that the minimum wage earner spends 26 percent of his wage buying formula milk when breast milk can guarantee less malnutrition, less diarrhea and upper respiratory infections for the neonate, translating to less hospitalizations. Best of all, breast milk is available at no cost at all.