scholarly journals A Home‐based educational intervention to caregivers in South India to improve complementary feeding and responsive feeding, and psychosocial stimulation increases dietary intake, growth and development of infants

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret E Bentley ◽  
Shanaz Vazir ◽  
Patrice Engle ◽  
N. Balakrishna ◽  
Susan Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
South India ◽  
Complementary Feeding ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Psychosocial Stimulation

Nutrition For Healthy Infants And Toddlers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Collier ◽  
Jenny Kinne
Keyword(s):  
Breast Milk ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Complementary Feeding ◽  
Food Allergies ◽  
Adequate Nutrition ◽  
Key Words Breast ◽  
Healthy Infants ◽  
Varied Diet ◽  
Feeding Skills ◽  
Potential Food

Feeding and eating are essential to life. As the infant grows into a toddler, the child goes through transitions with feeding, starting with breast milk or formula, transitioning to complementary feeding between the ages of 4 and 6 months, and then advancing to table foods. It is important to provide adequate nutrition to meet the growing needs of the child from a macronutrient and micronutrient standpoint through infancy to childhood. Throughout this time, anthropometric measurements are obtained to assess proper growth. Feeding is a dynamic part of a child’s life that varies at each stage of childhood, which comes with challenges such as avoiding choking hazards, preventing potential food allergies, providing a varied diet to meet macronutrient and micronutrient needs, and supporting advancement in textures for appropriate development of feeding skills and avoiding issues with picky eating. Providing proper nutrition from quality, quantity, and texture standpoints at each stage of childhood is essential to ensure adequate nutrition to promote healthy and expected growth and development.   This review contains 4 figures, 10 tables and 43 references Key words: breast milk, complementary feeding, food, food safety, formula, growth, infant, micronutrients, neophobia, nutrition, oral health, physical activity, toddler

scholarly journals Dietary intake from complementary feeding is associated with intestinal barrier function and environmental enteropathy in Brazilian children from the MAL-ED cohort study

2020 ◽  
Vol 123 (9) ◽  
pp. 1003-1012
Author(s):  
P. N. Costa ◽  
A. M. Soares ◽  
J. Q. Filho ◽  
F. S. Junior ◽  
R. Ambikapathi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Barrier Function ◽  
Complementary Feeding ◽  
Intestinal Inflammation ◽  
Intestinal Barrier ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Intestinal Barrier Function ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Environmental Enteropathy

AbstractA child’s diet contains nutrients and other substances that influence intestinal health. The present study aimed to evaluate the relations between complementary feeding, intestinal barrier function and environmental enteropathy (EE) in infants. Data from 233 children were obtained from the Brazilian site of the Etiology, Risk Factors, and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development Project cohort study. Habitual dietary intake from complementary feeding was estimated using seven 24-h dietary recalls, from 9 to 15 months of age. Intestinal barrier function was assessed using the lactulose–mannitol test (L–M), and EE was determined as a composite measure using faecal biomarkers concentrations – α-1-antitrypsin, myeloperoxidase (MPO) and neopterin (NEO) at 15 months of age. The nutrient adequacies explored the associations between dietary intake and the intestinal biomarkers. Children showed adequate nutrient intakes (with the exception of fibre), impaired intestinal barrier function and intestinal inflammation. There was a negative correlation between energy adequacy and L–M (ρ = −0·19, P < 0·05) and between folate adequacy and NEO concentrations (ρ = −0·21, P < 0·01). In addition, there was a positive correlation between thiamine adequacy and MPO concentration (ρ = 0·22, P < 0·01) and between Ca adequacy and NEO concentration (ρ = 0·23; P < 0·01). Multiple linear regression models showed that energy intakes were inversely associated with intestinal barrier function (β = −0·19, P = 0·02), and fibre intake was inversely associated with the EE scores (β = −0·20, P = 0·04). Findings suggest that dietary intake from complementary feeding is associated with decreased intestinal barrier function and EE in children.

Efficacy of an intensive home-based educational intervention programme for 4- to 6-year-old ethnic minority children in the Netherlands

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy van Tuijl ◽  
Paul P.M. Leseman ◽  
Jan Rispens
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Emergent Literacy ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Intervention Programme ◽  
Dutch Version ◽  
Home Based

This paper reports the results of an intensive home-based educational intervention programme for 4- to 6-year-old children at risk of educational failure. The programme, Opstap Opnieuw (“Step-up Anew”), was developed in the Netherlands as an alternative to the well-known HIPPY-programme, of which a Dutch version was carried out in the early 1990s for ethnic minority groups, without apparent success. Building on the basic intervention strategy of HIPPY (i.e., involving mothers and paraprofessional aides), a new curriculum was developed based on recent theoretical insights in cognitive and language development, and emergent literacy and numeracy. The programme was carried out with Turkish and Moroccan immigrant families. For the Turkish group, the results were partly positive: There were modest effects of the programme on cognitive development and emergent numeracy, small effects on Turkish language development, but no effects on Dutch language development. In contrast, for the Moroccan group the effects were disappointing. The results are evaluated with respect to recent insights into effective strategies and essential ingredients of early educational intervention programmes.

scholarly journals Dietary profile of urban adult population in South India in the context of chronic disease epidemiology (CURES – 68)

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganesan Radhika ◽  
Rangaswamy M Sathya ◽  
Anbazhagan Ganesan ◽  
Raghavan Saroja ◽  
Parthasarathy Vijayalakshmi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
South India ◽  
Vegetable Consumption ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Fats And Oils ◽  
Population Based ◽  
South Indian Population ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
South Indian

AbstractObjectiveFew dietary surveys have been done with reference to chronic diseases, such as diabetes, in India, which is considered to be the diabetes capital of the world. We report on the dietary intake of urban adults living in Chennai, South India.DesignA population-based cross-sectional study.SettingA representative population of urban Chennai in southern India.SubjectsThe study population comprised 2042 individuals aged ≥20 years selected from the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiological Study (CURES). Dietary intake was measured using a validated and previously published interviewer-administered semi-quantitative meal-based FFQ.ResultsThe mean daily energy intake was 10 393 (sd 2347) kJ (male: 10953 (sd 2364) kJ v. female: 9832 (sd 233) kJ). Carbohydrates were the major source of energy (64 %), followed by fat (24 %) and protein (12 %). Refined cereals contributed to the bulk of the energy (45·8 %), followed by visible fats and oils (12·4 %) and pulses and legumes (7·8 %). However, energy supply from sugar and sweetened beverages was within the recommended levels. Intake of micronutrient-rich foods, such as fruit and vegetable consumption (265 g/d), and fish and seafoods (20 g/d), was far below the FAO/WHO recommendation. Dairy and meat products intake was within the national recommended intake.ConclusionsThe diet of this urban South Indian population consists mainly of refined cereals with low intake of fish, fruit and vegetables, and all of these could possibly contribute to the risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes in this population.

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