Infant feeding in Chinese populations.

Chinese Methods of Infant Feeding

In any attempt to improve the dietary of a community, it is preferable to evolve from existing practices rather than indiscriminately to substitute foreign ones. It is obvious, then, that these indigenous practices must be known and preferably understood. Mere descriptions alone are often of interest, but their interest and value are enhanced when, as frequently is the case, domestic economies ...

Effect of feeding pattern on infant illness in Chinese cities.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of different feeding patterns on the occurrence of diseases among infants. DESIGN Data on socio-economic status, feeding patterns before 6 months (exclusive breast-feeding (EBF); mixed feeding with breast milk and formula (MBF); exclusive formula-feeding (EFF)) and illness of infants were collected via face-to-face interviews. The proportions of infants who...

Common Practices in Infant Feeding Common Practices in Infant Feeding

The Chinese-born immigrant infant feeding and growth hypothesis

BACKGROUND Rapid growth in the first six months of life is a well-established risk factor for childhood obesity, and child feeding practices (supplementation or substitution of breast milk with formula and early introduction of solids) have been reported to predict this. The third largest immigrant group in Australia originate from China. Case-studies reported from Victorian Maternal and Child ...

Infant Feeding

This new volume on Infant Feeding is based on a course of lectures given to the students of Rush Medical College, and it is partly due to a demand on their part that the treatise is written. In its preparation the writer has endeavoured to bring our knowledge of the scientific processes that underlie infant feeding up to the present, and to apply these principles in such a way that they can be ...