Food-Based Complementary Feeding Strategies for Breast-Fed Infants

Food-Based Complementary Feeding Strategies for Breast-Fed Infants

The period of complementary feeding represents a major portion of the 1000-day criticalwindowand thus impacts a period of substantial and dynamic infant development. This review highlights and synthesizes findings of several recent studies conducted to evaluate food-based strategies on outcomes related to micronutrient status, growth, and neurocognitive development. Particular emphasis is place...

Importance of Exclusive Breast Feeding and Complementary Feeding Among Infants

The aim of this review is to document the advantages of exclusive breastfeeding along with concerns which may hinder the practice of breastfeeding and focuses on the appropriateness of complementary feeding and feeding difficulties which infants encounter. Breastfeeding, as recommended by the World Health Organisation, is the most cost effective way for reducing childhood morbidity such as obes...

Food allergy in fully breast-fed infants.

Introduction It is widely accepted that potentially allergenic macro-molecules are absorbed by the normal adult gut (Lancet, 1978) and may pass from mother to infant in breast milk (Matsumura et al, 1975). Several decades ago physicians realized that such substances could produce adverse reactions in susceptible infants (Shannon, l921;Talbot, 1918). and more recently have suggested that they ca...

Complementary feeding in preterm infants.

Food allergy and complementary feeding.

The relationship between complementary feeding and the development of atopic disease is the source of significant interest and debate in both the scientific and lay communities. A small number of early studies, which had considerable influence on recommended feeding practices, reported protective effects associated with delaying the introduction of commonly allergenic foods such as cow's milk, ...