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  Suboptimum breastfeeding still accounts for an 
  estimated 1.4 million deaths in children under 
  five annually 
http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/index_breastfeeding.html


Where most of these are just a subtype of malnutrition, if I don't miss my guess. If they only counted babies who die because they are fed with the adequate amount of formula instead of breastfeeding, that number would probably be vanishingly small. Unfortunately, the cited paper is not freely available, so I cannot check.


… a subtype of malnutrition related to not breastfeeding enough.

See my other post for some examples of the research that's been done in the area of infant mortality and insufficient breastfeeding:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5619120


Yeah, Rayiner's response seems to fairly well reflect my thoughts on your citations.




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