Infant nutrition may influence eating behaviour and food preferences in later life. The present study explores whether exclusive breast-feeding duration and age at introduction of solid foods are associated with children's eating behaviour and fruit and vegetable intake at age 5 years. Data were derived from the Amsterdam Born Children and their Development study, a prospective birth cohort in ...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether child care arrangements influence infant feeding practices and weight gain among US infants. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of data collected by the US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. SETTING A nationally representative sample of infants enrolled in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort at baseline. PARTICIPANT...

The purpose of the study was to understand present infant complementary foods eating and compare trends over the past 10 years in Taiwan. We investigated the methods used to introduce infants to complementary foods, difficulties encountered, sources of information and the principle caregiver's knowledge about infant feeding. This study focused on findings from the 2005-2008 Nutrition and Health...

PURPOSE This study investigated self-food restriction during breastfeeding, reviewed the literature showing the effect of maternal diet on the health of breast-fed infants, and explored the validity of dietary restrictions. METHODS Questionnaire data were collected from breastfeeding Korean mothers who visited the pediatric clinic of Cheil General Hospital & Women's Healthcare Center from Jul...

Food regulation aims to protect public health through a safe and nutritious food supply produced by a compliant food industry. Food standards of developed countries generally do not regulate protein content or protein quality because the risk of dietary protein inadequacy in their national populations is very low. Protein is nevertheless regulated for reasons of product quality or protein label...

Baby-led weaning is an approach to complementary feeding that emphasizes infant's ability self-feed rather than being spoon fed, and eat minimally-processed foods puréed foods. This study aimed investigate the variability in infant practices possible association with developmental milestones Italian population. A sample of 1245 mothers 6–12 month-old infants completed online survey about their ...

Complementary foods based on cow's milk or gruels consumed by children in developing countries are often contaminated by bacteria during preparation, and ambient temperature rapidly increases microbial load. Thus infant formula or other weaning foods may cause diarrhea in young infants accounting for 25-33% of all deaths <5 years globally. Environmental chemicals such as metals (As, Pb, Cu) and...