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

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 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...

IBFAN Statement Infant and Young Child Feeding and Chemical Residues

International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), established in 1979, consists of more than 250 public interest groups working around the world to reduce infant and young child morbidity. IBFAN aims to improve the health and well-being of babies and young children, their mothers and their families through protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and optimal infant feeding practices. IB...

Infant and young child feeding counseling: an intervention study.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of an integrated infant and young child feeding counseling course for transforming the knowledge, attitudes and practices of pediatricians and nutritionists working for the municipal health system of São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS A randomized intervention study enrolling 29 professionals in the intervention group and 27 in the control group. Interviewers w...