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Feeding practices of infants

Molecular Nutrition: Mother and Infant, Page: 57-86
2021
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Book Chapter Description

Environmental factors and lifestyle behaviors have an impact in future individual's health from early life through programming effect. For instance, early influence on the development of food preferences or the microbiome establishment that might lead to obesity development start at that time. In this sense, infancy is a crucial period from a growth and development point of view and to assure a good nutritional status must be an aim. The immaturity of the digestive organs followed by the wide list of advantages for the baby and the mother highlighted breastfeeding as the gold standard of nurture in this lifespan. Despite all the benefits, it is not always possible to breastfed infants, due to parental choice or medical complications such as human immunodeficiency virus infection, among others. In that sense, the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition, based in its last revisions, agreed that infant (<1y) and young children (>1y) formulas, constituting the feeding substitution, are also safe and adequate. They have also introduced new aspects to consider in terms of complementary feeding (>6m) in relation to physiological and neurological maturation, nutritional adequacy of exclusive breastfeeding, taste and preference development, and health outcomes.

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