ProPAN 2.0 (Process for the Promotion of Child Feeding): a Tool for Infant and Young Child Feeding Programming

Infant and Young Child Feeding: a Key area to Improve Child Health

  Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies.

Infant and Young Child Feeding Status in Iran Compared the Different United Nation Regions

Promote and support breastfeeding is an essential element for the health and development of infants so that, it introduced as most cost-effective intervention to reduce infant mortality in developing countries (1). Breastfeeding has an important role to ensure food security for maintain a healthy and productive life for a large proportion of babies in the world, in addition, it is associated wi...

infant and young child feeding: a key area to improve child health

good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. for millions of child...

Infant and Young Child Feeding and Chemical Residues

“Given that breastfeeding reduces child mortality and has benefits that extend into adulthood, every effort has been made to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in the context of these studies [...] Human milk though still the best food for infants has been unintentionally compromised by unwelcome chemicals from our environment, as a result of eating, drinking and living in a technologic...