Background: Nutritional status of infants and young children chiefly depends on proper
feeding practice; despite child rearing that often vary across population. Childhood …

Complementary feeding is transitional phase where the infant is introduced with the solid
foods. It is a gradual change from breast feeding to family foods to the baby achieving six …

Premature mortality and undernutrition rates in Pakistan are among the highest in the world.
Inadequate infant and young child feeding are the major causes of premature mortality and …

Background: India alone is responsible for one third of the global burden of low birth weight
even after excluding 66 per cent of infants in the country who are not weighed at birth …

PURPOSE. Nine-and one-half percent of Pakistani children under five years of age are
overweight, compared to the worldwide estimate of 5.6%. To help prevent under and over …

This community-based cross-sectional study was undertaken to develop a complementary
feeding index (CFI) to assess the adequacy of complementary feeding (CF) practices and …

Objective The present investigation was undertaken with the objective of creating an Infant
and Child Feeding Index (ICFI) from a set of complementary feeding (CF) practices and to …

Appropriate infant and young child feeding practices constitute a critical determinant of child
nutrition, survival, growth and development. The importance of nutrition as a foundation for …