As per the 'Children in India 2025' report by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 72.7 per cent of ...

Introduction We aimed to determine the association between paternal labour migration and the growth of the left-behind ...

1 School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Sunway Campus, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia Introduction The rise in the prevalence of childhood obesity worldwide calls for an intervention ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Complementary feeding as the process starting when breast milk alone is no longer sufficient to meet the nutritional requirements of infants, and therefore ...

Proper nutrition during pregnancy, infancy and early childhood is vital to ensure growth, health and development of a child. Breastfeeding is known for its numerous benefits for the mother and the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . From 2016 to 2022, 10% of infants were introduced to complementary foods too early. Early introduction was more ...

Enteral feeding, also called tube feeding, is a method of feeding that provides nutrition and calories when a person can’t chew or swallow. This generally involves providing nutrition through a tube ...

Nutrient intake in the first two years of life is governed by appropriate infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, which comprise breastfeeding and complementary feeding (CF). Complementary ...

A growing number of parents are skipping spoon-feeding their babies and trying “baby-led weaning” instead. By Katie J. M. Baker Jenny Best was determined that her firstborn son would have a positive ...