Dietary characteristics of complementary foods offered to Guatemalan infants vary between urban and rural settings

Nutrition Research

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 470-479

  Enneman, Anke ^a,b   Hernández, Liza ^a   Campos, Raquel ^a   Vossenaar, Marieke ^a   Solomons, Noel W ^a  

^a Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment Aging and Metabolism Guatemala   (Guatemala)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Complementary feeding; Diet surveys; Dietary diversity; Dietary variety; Guatemala; Infant nutrition

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BABY FOOD; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD PROCESSING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUATEMALA; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PHYTOAVAILABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST FEEDING; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; VEGETABLES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 68949175236     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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