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'Working mothers should be encouraged to breast feed'

'After 30 years of war, Sri Lanka is on the threshold of rapid development. More and more women go to work now than ever before. Therefore, the home and workplace environment should be facilitated for working mothers to breastfeed their infants. Breastfeeding helps reduce the risk of breast cancer in women,' WHO Representative to Sri Lanka Dr. R.F. Mehta said.

Addressing a media seminar and workshop on 'the Sri Lanka Code for Protection and support of breastfeeding and marketing of designated products' at Waters Edge Hotel, Battaramulla recently, Dr. Mehta said that the political leadership in Sri Lanka along with health staff will make Sri Lanka a beacon in Asia for doing so much with so little.

Health Deputy Minister Lalith Dissanayake said that Sri Lanka has best health indicators in many subject areas,such as, maternal and infant mortality rates, life expectancy etc. Nutrition cannot be improved without changing the attitudes of people. When certain television programmes show a world famous Sri Lankan spotsman consuming an expensive and less nutritious food item, children do not like to eat cheap nutritious green leaves. They tend to demand the same type of food as depicted in the TV advertisement. Some advertisements show infants walking which is far from the reality. Legal action can be taken against such fake and fabricated advertisements.

The deputy minister said there is nothing in the world that can be compared to breast milk.

The best food that an infant can ever get is breast milk. Private sector employers should encourage working mothers to breast feed their infants and provide the required facilities for them.

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