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FEEDING GUIDELINES FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS (START HEALTHY PROGRAM)

Abstract

The dietary guidelines for americans contains recommendations on diets and healthy lifestyles but it does not deal with specificities of the diet and feeding breast and small infants (to 2 years). However, parents and carecgivers need practical recommendations on feeding infants and toddlers that are necessary to ensure a normal growth and to create the basis for forming healthy food habits, which apart from other benefits might help prevent the development of obesity and other diseases in both childhood and adulthood. The feeding guidelines for infants and toddlers is aimed at providing parents and carecgivers with practical information on feeding breast and small infants. It is intendced for adding and broadening recommendations worked out by other expert groups and organizations. The article provides a substantiation of the guidelines. The methodology, results and a complete reference list used to work out the recommendations are presented in another document.
Key words: infants, nutrition.

About the Authors

Nancy Butte
Baylor, Houston, Texas, USA
United States



Kathleen Cobb
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA
United States


Joanna Dwyer
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
United States



Laura Graney
WIC, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
United States


William Heird
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
United States



Caryl Richard
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA
United States


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Butte N., Cobb K., Dwyer J., Graney L., Heird W., Richard C. FEEDING GUIDELINES FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS (START HEALTHY PROGRAM). Current Pediatrics. 2007;6(1):115-129.

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