Malnutrition and denial of natural immunities, found in mother's milk, caused by infant formula feeding, account for 35,000 deaths and untold brain damage in babies of predominantly Third World countries. As a result of the worldwide outrage over this issue, the United Nations passed a rigid code for marketing breast-milk substitutes in 1981. The final vote was 118 to 1. The United States cast the sole negative vote. New research revealed that, for the first time in history, there are as many overweight people in the world as underweight people.
Overweight people outnumber underweight people by more than ten to one in North America.
There are also more overweight people in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe. Meanwhile there are more underweight people in Africa, Asia, and South Asia where the underweight people outnumber the overweight people by five to one. The moral to this story is that Americans should eat less and share more. It seems the U.S. thought this reportedly invalid data would stall the Soviet's research on chemical weapons. Instead, it prompted the Soviets to conduct more intensive research and development on their own program.