BACKGROUND AND AIMS: To describe growth patterns of young children in Latin America
and the Caribbean, the types of nationally representative data available on complementary …

The infant feeding practices in the first year of life are of fundamental importance for their
growth and development. This study was carried out aiming at checking on the prevalence …

The study objective was to understand the role of traditional Awajún foods in dietary quality
and the potential impacts on growth of Awajún infants and young children 0–23 months of …

Background: The early introduction of food is consistent with a significant increase in the
prevalence of overweight and obesity, particularly in children, partly because of the resulting …

Understanding the feeding patterns of Mexican infants and toddlers has required large
efforts due to the lack of recent reliable data. The double burden of obesity and micronutrient …

The complementary feeding period is the time when infants transition from an exclusively
milk-based diet to an increasingly diversified diet with plant-and animalbased foods; the …

The aim of this study was to determine the risk factors of childhood obesity among infants
and toddlers from low-income families from three cities in Mexico. This is a cross-sectional …

In industrialized countries complementary feeding has no major impact on obesity. However,
there is some evidence that the age at introduction of complementary foods has some effect …

OBJECTIVE: To characterize feeding practices in a community in the Peruvian Amazon and
to consider how this information could be used to strengthen programs and policies …

ObjectiveTo examine the association between complementary feeding indicators and
attained linear growth at 6–23 months. DesignSecondary analysis of Phase V Demographic …