Food-based complementary feeding strategies for breast-fed infants: What's the evidence that it matters?

Nutrition Today

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 271-277

  Krebs, Nancy F ^a  

^a University of Colorado Denver and Children s Hospital Colorado   (United States)

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EID: 84916887599     PISSN: 0029666X     EISSN: 15389839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NT.0000000000000064     Document Type: Review

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