A report in the British Medical Journal said that young white women from low-income backgrounds were the most likely to use formula milk and this had created a "major public health and inequalities challenge".
"It is well known that breastfeeding improves infant health, but in spite of national and international policy initiatives, 40 per cent of women in the UK who start to breastfeed discontinue by the time their baby is six weeks old, and only 20 per cent of infants are exclusively breastfed at six weeks," said the report, which was put together by researchers from the universities of York and Sheffield.
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