OBJECTIVE To determine feeding practices and selected health-related behaviours in New Zealand families following a 'baby-led' or more traditional 'parent-led' method for introducing complementary foods. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS 199 mothers completed an online survey about introducing complementary foods to their infant. Participants were classified into one of four groups: 'adherent ...

Five million children aged less than five years die annually due to diarrhoea. The aim of the study was to identify some possible contributing factors for persistent diarrhoea. Seven weaning foods, including a locally-made food, were evaluated by estimating the microbial load using the most probable number method and aflatoxin levels (AFM1, AFG1, AFG2, and AFB2) by immunoaffinity column extract...

For 829 mammalian species, data on age at weaning or age at first solid food were analyzed with respect to body mass, phylogeny, habitat, diet, length of gestation, basal metabolism, and neonatal development. The primary influence on lactation length is female mass, but phylogenetic constraints are important. Thus, lactation can be characterized as short (earless seals and baleen whales), long ...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to measure the impact of a hygiene intervention on the contamination of weaning food in Bangladesh. METHODS Sixty households were selected: 30 study and 30 control households. Samples of weaning food were collected from all the 60 households at baseline and examined for faecal coliforms (FC), faecal streptococci (FS) and Clostridium perfringens (CP) followin...

This article aims to discuss the impact of weaning according Qur'an in increasing psychological maturity children. Weaning is inseparable from discussion about breastfeeding. Therefore, this paper begins with a definition breastfeeding and weaning, legal basis, types methods, at age two finally classified as library research, where author uses multidisciplinary approach, namely interpretive, le...

Protein-energy malnutrition is regarded as one of the public health problems in developing countries as a result of poor feeding practices due to poverty. This study, therefore, aimed at evaluating nutritional quality of a potential weaning food formulated from locally available food materials. The cooking banana fruit (CB) and bambara groundnut seeds (BG) were purchased from local market in Ak...

This study analyses the eating routines and habits of Portuguese children aged 4 to 18 months, methods food introduction most frequently used, parents’ perceptions regarding importance for speech development. A sample 297 parents filled out an online self-report questionnaire about their perceptions, knowledge, methods, relationship with showed high reliability (α=0.86). The majority mothers th...

The objective of the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (SISVAN) is to monitor the food intake of individuals attended by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). The objective of this research was to identify the feeding practices of children under 24 months of age who were attended at Primary Healthcare Units (UBS), using SISVAN, and to assess the relationship with maternal sociodemogra...