"If children were exclusively breastfed for six months, continued to breastfeed up to two years, with appropriate additional food from six months onwards, we could save 1.5 million children under five years of age out the 8.8 million that we estimate to die currently every year."

VOA: special.2010.08.04

This is because poor feeding practices foremost among them a failure exclusively to breastfeed in the first six months play as big a role in India's malnutrition rates as food shortages.

ECONOMIST: Child malnutrition in India