It can be accepted as axiomatic at the present time that the basic food substance for the artificial feeding of healthy infants is cow’s milk. In the first place, therefore, attention must be directed towards a comparison between human breast milk and cow’s milk. Ideally, the substitute food should approximate to nature’s food as closely and as exactly as possible. Towards the end of the last c...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is the top cause of global burden of disease, disability and mortality among infants. Over two-thirds of deaths of children globally occur during the first year of life (infancy). Malnutrition among infants is substantially high in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study is aimed to assess determinants of infant nutritional status. METHODS A community based nested case-control...

Food neophobia is a highly heritable trait characterized by the rejection of foods that are novel or unknown and potentially limits dietary variety, with lower intake and preference particularly for fruits and vegetables. Understanding non-genetic (environmental) factors that may influence the expression of food neophobia is essential to improving children's consumption of fruits and vegetables...

OBJECTIVE The authors reviewed the risks and benefits regarding the use of psychiatric medications during breast-feeding as they relate to the health and well-being of mothers and their infants. Strategies are discussed to limit infant exposure to a medication while effectively treating the nursing mother. METHOD A MEDLINE search of the literature since 1955 was conducted to determine the use...

BACKGROUND As a group, bottle-fed infants are at higher risk for rapid weight gain compared with breast-fed infants. However, little is known about individual differences in feeding behaviors of bottle-feeding infants, as well as maternal and infant characteristics associated with bottle-feeding outcomes. METHODS We conducted a 2-day, within-subject study of 21 formula-feeding dyads; the with...

Sir—Florey etal. investigated the association between infant feeding and mental and motor development in first born singletons. The study population comprised 846 infants, of whom 592 attended for developmental assessment at age 18 months. The Bayley Scales of Infant Mental and Motor Development were used to assess the child's developmental status. Eight covariates included in the analysis were...

The association between adult obesity and increased risk of chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases is well known. The observed rapid escalation of overweight and obesity in the past two decades is therefore a cause for great concern. The rising prevalence of childhood obesity is receiving greater attention because of its association with adult obesity and its complications. ...

Although studies have shown cue-based feeding can lead to earlier achievement of full oral feeding, the successful implementation of cue-based feeding has been constrained by the volume-driven culture, which has existed for many years in the NIC U. This culture was built on the notion that a "better" nurse is one who could "get more in," and infants who are "poor feeders" are ones who "can't ta...