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This volume establishes the scientific basis for addressing the
many questions that surround the appropriate feeding of infants
during their first year of life. Noting that adequate diet is more
critical in early infancy than at any other time in life, the
review considers what knowledge about infant physiology can
contribute to the understanding of nutritional needs. More than 500
references to the literature are included. The evidence reviewed
challenges several widely held assumptions concerning the need for
proprietary formulas, the most appropriate time to introduce
complementary foods, and the best feeding regimen for
low-birth-weight infants. The book has six chapters. The first
examines the physiological mechanisms that operate during
pregnancy, affect fetal growth and govern the newborn's nutritional
requirements. Chapter two provides a fascinating account of the
physiology of human lactation. Health factors which may interfere
with breast-feeding are discussed in the third chapter, which
considers the case of infants with congenital and hereditary
metabolic disorders, cleft lip and cleft palate, and different
maternal illnesses, including infection with HIV. The fourth
chapter, on complementary feeding, concludes that breast milk alone
satisfies the energy requirements of the average infant for the
first six months of life and that complementary feeding before that
time can introduce a number of short- and long-term risks. The
remaining chapters review the special needs of two particularly
vulnerable groups: low-birth-weight infants and infants and young
children during periods of acute infection.
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