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Michael Latham, nutritionist who advocated breast-feeding, dies at 82

by Emma Brown

Michael Latham, a leading nutritionist and tropical public health specialist who staunchly opposed the marketing of infant formula as a replacement for breast-feeding in developing countries, died April 1 in Boston of pneumonia. He was 82.

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