• The nine months of pregnancy is the right time to start thinking about how to feed a baby

While breastfeeding is considered to provide more nutrition and protection, women must be given information about the choices and support for their decisions.

•  India is planning a network of human breast-milk banks but first needs to put safeguards in place

Breast-milk collected from donors on a large scale need to be checked for adulteration and contamination.
 

• India looks to Modi for justice to the undernourished child

Come 2022, as India turns 75, the government’s success will be judged against India’s darkest distended underbelly, its millions of unhealthy malnourished children.

• ‘Do more to prevent conflict of interest’

Conflict of interest is a set of circumstances in which professional judgement may be unduly influenced by secondary interests.

• No, India is not a ‘breastfeeding nation’. But it badly needs to be one
  Caught between unsupportive health workers and an unethical baby food industry, new mothers are being dissuaded from breastfeeding. https://scroll.in , Jan.19 , 2017

• This Delhi NGO Has Been Fighting Baby Food Brands & Promoting Breastfeeding across Asia for 25 Years
  www.thebetterindia.mco, Oct. 4, 2016

• ‘Breastfeeding rates can go up only if we invest in policy and programmes’,  http://currenthealthscenario.blogspot.in/, Aug. 12, 2016
  BREASTFEEDING THE CHILD, A biological norm and a sustainable nectar-providing exercise    Woman’s Era , May 2016

• To assess the prevalence and factors determining timely initiation of breastfeeding among the mothers in resettlement colony in Delhi , 25 May 2016

• Breastfeeding practice , at its low in India , www.governancetoday.co.in, March 2016

• As in the case of Swachh Bharat, India needs concerted action to beat malnutrition,  http://www.sundayguardianlive.com, March 5, 2016

• INDIA: Ad-hoc action will perpetuate child malnutrition , http://www.humanrights.asia, February 12, 2016

• Breastfeeding 2 : Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices? - Nigel C Rollins, Nita Bhandari, Nemat Hajeebhoy, Susan Horton, Chessa K Lutter, Jose C Martines, Ellen G Piwoz, Linda M Richter, Cesar G Victora, on behalf of The Lancet Breastfeeding Series Group* , January 29, 2016 

• Breastfeeding 1 : Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect - Cesar G Victora, Rajiv Bahl, Aluísio J D Barros, Giovanny V A França, Susan Horton, Julia Krasevec, Simon Murch, Mari Jeeva Sankar, Neff Walker,Nigel C Rollins, for The Lancet Breastfeeding Series Group*, January 29, 2016 

• Chapter 4 , Nutrition ,Infant and Young Child Feeding - RK Anand, Breastfeeding - JP Dadhich, Malnutrition-Meenakshi N Mehta, Water-soluble Vitamins-Dheeraj Shah, Fat-soluble Vitamins-(Late) Panna Choudhury, Trace Elements-KE Elizabeth, Human Milk Banking-RK Agarwal , , IAP Textbook of Pediatrics, 2016

• Conflict of interest in public health: should there be a law to prevent it? , Arun Gupta, Radha Holla, Shoba Suri, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, June 4, 2015

• ‘Negotiatingthetensionsofhavingtoattachanddetach concurrently’: Aqualitative study on combining breastfeeding and employment in publiceducation and health sectors in New Delhi, India - Amal Omer Salim,LicentiateofPhilosophy (MedicalSciences) PhD Candidatea, Shoba Suri,PhD (Nutrition&Physiology) Policy & Programme Coordinatorb, Jai PrakashDadhich,MD (Pediatrics), FNNF Nationa lCoordinator, Mohammad Moonis Akbar Faridi,MD,DCHProfessor&Head , PiaOlsson, PhD ,Assprofessor Senior lecturera

• Investing in Breastfeeding – The World Breastfeeding Costing Initiative - Radha Holla, Alessandro Iellamo, Arun Gupta, Julie P Smith, Jai Prakash Dadhich, Published online -International Breastfeeding Journal Sample, February 23, 2015

• Manipulation by Association Is the Private Sector Undermining Nutrition?- Arun Gupta, J P Dadhich, Navdeep Singh Khaira, Radha Holla , Published on Economic & Political Weekly (EPW ), July 26, 2014 vol xlIX 18 no 30

• Management of Breastfeeding , Summary of Recommendations- Published on The National Neonatology Forum (NNF)

• Protection, Promotion, and Support and Global Trends in Breastfeeding- Chessa K. Lutter, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Washington, DC and Ardythe L. Morrow,Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Human Milk and  Lactation, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

• International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) Statement on the Promotion and Use of Commercial Fortified Foods as Solutions for Child Malnutrition - Published on INDIAN PEDIATRICS , VOLUME 49, APRIL 16, 2012

• Conflicts of interest and the UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases - Paul Lincoln, Patti Rundall, Bill Jeffery, Gigi Kellett, Tim Lobstein , Lida Lhotska, Kate Allen, Arun Gupta, Published on The Lancet, Volume 378, Issue 9804, Page e6, 12 November 2011

• Does Formula Feeding contribute to childhood obesity? National Coordinator, Breastfeeding Promotion Netwrok of India Dr JP Dadhich answers. -- Published on Centre for Science and Environment

• Experts contest new vaccine policy document-- Down to Earth, Sonal Matharu , Sep 15, 2011

• Enhancing Optimal Infant Feeding Practices in India -- Paper by Dr.Arun Gupta, Dr.J.P. Dadhich, Dr.Shoba Suri