Premastication: The second arm of infant and young child feeding for health and survival?

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-18

  Pelto, Gretel H ^a   Zhang, Yuanyuan ^b   Habicht, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complimentary feeding; Cross cultural; Disease transmission; Human evolution; Infant feeding in China; Infant immunology; Saliva

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BABY FOOD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFANT FEEDING; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PREMASTICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ANIMALS; BREAST FEEDING; CHINA; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT WELFARE; MALNUTRITION; MASTICATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PLANTS, EDIBLE; SALIVA;

EID: 73149084833     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2009.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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