SCIENTIFIC INFANT FEEDING

Infant feeding and adiposity: scientific challenges in life-course epidemiology.

The article by Durmus x et al (1) published in this issue of the Journal is yet another important contribution from the Generation R Study in Rotterdam and shows the value of birth cohort studies in life-course epidemiology. The focus of this article is the relation between infant feeding (the duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding and the age at introduction of solid foods) and adiposity at...

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 ...

Infant Feeding

Infant Feeding

Side by side with a diminishing birth-rate we see an immense increase in the number of books on infant feeding and the diseases of children, till one may imagine that eventually the output of the latter may equal or exceed that of the former. Meanwhile, we may observe that in general the teaching inculcated in the numerous volumes on infant feeding, though excellent, is apt to be monotonous. It...

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