ABC of nutrition. Infant feeding.

Effect of nutrition education of mothers on infant feeding practices.

OBJECTIVE To assess current infant feeding practices (IFP) in a relocated slum, to identity the lacunae, to outline, implement, and evaluate the gain in awareness and IFP followed by mothers. METHODS Thirty-five mothers of infants aged 5-19 months were interviewed. Based on lacunae, Nutrition Education (NE) was imparted to mothers over two months. Tools used were individual counseling, partic...

Infant Nutrition: A Textbook of Infant Feeding for Students and Practitioners of Medicine

Infant Nutrition: A Text-Book of Infant Feeding for Students and Practitioners of Medicine

As a text-book this volume of over 300 pages may frighten the student by its size, but if one glances through the chapters one soon finds that the first seven deal with elementary physiology, which the student already knows. These chapters are not complete but they serve the useful purpose of reminding the student and doctor that it is necessary to think of the infant's diet in terms of physiol...

Infant Nutrition. A Textbook of Infant Feeding for Students and Practitioners of Medicine

103 beet, and of cane and beet juices; (23) Microbiological dete.rioration of sugar in storage. The value of the book is enhanced by well-arranged author and subject indexes, aside from the numerous references at the end of each chapter to related publications. A large part of the book is devoted to discussion of theories, and pro-blematical changes which take place in the complex processes of ...

Social Contexts of Infant Feeding and Infant Feeding Decisions.

BACKGROUND Infant feeding takes place within a network of social relationships. However, the social context in which infant feeding advice is received remains underresearched. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the social contexts of infant feeding by examining individual and relationship characteristics of mothers and network members associated with advice to exclusively b...