Off to the best start: The importance of infant and young child feeding
IN RECENT YEARS, nutrition interventions have focused on the critical first 1,000 days of life (from pregnancy up to the child’s second birthday), a period which has been identified as a window of opportunity for preventing child morbidity and mortality and ensuring adequate growth. During this time...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2016
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| description | IN RECENT YEARS, nutrition interventions have focused on the critical first 1,000 days of life (from pregnancy up to the child’s second birthday), a period which has been identified as a window of opportunity for preventing child morbidity and mortality and ensuring adequate growth. During this time, children have higher nutritional needs to support rapid growth and development; if these are not met (and supported by adequate care and access to health services), loss in linear growth is largely irreversible and the potential for intervention to promote catch-up growth later on is minimal.1 Optimum nutrition in the first 1,000 days is also important for preventing overweight. Evidence suggests that infants with growth faltering in early life, followed by rapid weight gain in later childhood, might be at increased risk of adult obesity and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease and hypertension. 2 Strategies to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) are therefore a cornerstone for the child survival and development programs of many countries. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1480742025-11-06T04:11:12Z Off to the best start: The importance of infant and young child feeding Hodge, Judith maternal and child health education infants health nutrition policies agricultural policies agricultural research social protection water stunting agriculture micronutrient deficiencies malnutrition nutrition trace elements infant feeding developing countries children hygiene social safety nets resilience obesity wasting disease IN RECENT YEARS, nutrition interventions have focused on the critical first 1,000 days of life (from pregnancy up to the child’s second birthday), a period which has been identified as a window of opportunity for preventing child morbidity and mortality and ensuring adequate growth. During this time, children have higher nutritional needs to support rapid growth and development; if these are not met (and supported by adequate care and access to health services), loss in linear growth is largely irreversible and the potential for intervention to promote catch-up growth later on is minimal.1 Optimum nutrition in the first 1,000 days is also important for preventing overweight. Evidence suggests that infants with growth faltering in early life, followed by rapid weight gain in later childhood, might be at increased risk of adult obesity and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease and hypertension. 2 Strategies to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) are therefore a cornerstone for the child survival and development programs of many countries. 2016-06-15 2024-06-21T09:23:47Z 2024-06-21T09:23:47Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148074 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295889 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hodge, Judith. 2016. Off to the best start: The importance of infant and young child feeding. In Nourishing millions: Stories of change in nutrition. Gillespie, Stuart; Hodge, Judith; Yosef, Sivan; and Pandya-Lorch, Rajul (Eds.) Ch. 3 Pp. 27-33. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295889_03. |
| spellingShingle | maternal and child health education infants health nutrition policies agricultural policies agricultural research social protection water stunting agriculture micronutrient deficiencies malnutrition nutrition trace elements infant feeding developing countries children hygiene social safety nets resilience obesity wasting disease Hodge, Judith Off to the best start: The importance of infant and young child feeding |
| title | Off to the best start: The importance of infant and young child feeding |
| title_full | Off to the best start: The importance of infant and young child feeding |
| title_fullStr | Off to the best start: The importance of infant and young child feeding |
| title_full_unstemmed | Off to the best start: The importance of infant and young child feeding |
| title_short | Off to the best start: The importance of infant and young child feeding |
| title_sort | off to the best start the importance of infant and young child feeding |
| topic | maternal and child health education infants health nutrition policies agricultural policies agricultural research social protection water stunting agriculture micronutrient deficiencies malnutrition nutrition trace elements infant feeding developing countries children hygiene social safety nets resilience obesity wasting disease |
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