Complementary foods for infant feeding in developing countries: their nutrient adequacy and improvement

Complementary Feeding: Review of Recommendations, Feeding Practices, and Adequacy of Homemade Complementary Food Preparations in Developing Countries – Lessons from Ethiopia

Breastfeeding provides the ideal food during the first 6 months of life. Complementary feeding starts when breast milk is no longer sufficient by itself, where the target age is for 6-23 months. The gap between nutritional requirement and amount obtained from breast milk increases with age. For energy, 200, 300, and 550 kcal per day is expected to be covered by complementary foods at 6-8, 9-11,...

Complementary Feeding of Infants in Developing Countries: How to Design Appetible Transitional Foods

de l'alimentation infantile. Nous discuterons ici l'intérêt de l'analyse séquentielle dans la description du comportement alimentaire et des interactions enfants-adultes et enfants-enfants au cours du repas. Cette approche est avantageuse parce qu'elle permet de mettre en relation des données du comportement alimentaire quand et comment l'enfant est exposé à quel aliment et des données du conte...

On Infant Feeding and Infant Foods

The concept of "critical nutrient density" in complementary feeding: the demands on the "family foods" for the nutrient adequacy of young Guatemalan children with continued breastfeeding.

BACKGROUND The WHO recommends the introduction of nutritionally adequate, safe, and appropriate complementary foods at 6 mo of age, with continued breastfeeding up to 2 y and beyond. Suggested strategies to support continued breastfeeding often postulate optimal use of customary "family foods" and adequate amounts of indigenous foodstuffs and local foods. OBJECTIVE The objective was to determ...

Ensuring optimal breastfeeding and improvements in complementary feeding to improve infant and young child nutrition in developing countries.