REPORT 2 - Breaking down the barriers to breastfeeding to support healthy

EARLY YEARS SERIES: REPORT 2 Breaking down the barriers to breastfeeding to support healthy weight in childhood BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS TO BREASTFEEDING TO SUPPORT HEALTHY WEIGHT IN CHILDHOOD ABOUT THE FOOD FOUNDATION The Food Foundation is an independent charity working to address challenges in the food system in the interests of the UK public. [...] By the end of the series we hope to have built a picture of the underlying systemic failures in the food system CONTRIBUTORS that lead to the high numbers of children living with overweight or With thanks to the following experts and advisors who have provided significant advice and input into the obesity by the start of primary school. [...] 4 5 BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS TO BREASTFEEDING TO SUPPORT HEALTHY WEIGHT IN CHILDHOOD BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS TO BREASTFEEDING TO SUPPORT HEALTHY WEIGHT IN CHILDHOOD THE LINK BETWEEN INFANT FEEDING AND LATER OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY The link between infant feeding There have been a wide range of efforts by government to address childhood obesity, with and later overweight and obesity 14 governme. [...] From the picture of breastfeeding rates in the UK as a whole, and in each compared to the other nations of age of six months, children should of the devolved nations. [...] In summer UN Convention on the Rights not infant formula.88 parents often choosing to utilise the mother and baby, magnified by breastfeeding was covered in a 2023, the articles began to refer of the Child, to which the UK same products at home.91 showing celebrities breastfeeding negative light, with only 7% of to food insecurity and formula- is a signatory.103 Formula companies can and do in a d.