World Health Organization : Year 1996 ; World Health Organization, Nutrition, No. 96.9: Complementary Feeding of Infants and Young Children Report of a Technical Consultation Suppotted by World Health Organization, UNICEF University of California/Davis and ORStom

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1996 ; World Health Organization, Nutrition, No. 96.9: Complementary Feeding of Infants and Young Children Report of a Technical Consultation Suppotted by World Health Organization, UNICEF University of California/Davis and ORStom
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Acknowledgements This document was prepared by W ' s Programme of Nutrition under the direction of Dr Graeme Clugston, and Ms Randa Saadeh, technical officer, who had overall responsibility for the activity. WHO gratefblly aclcnowledges the conixibution of the Tropical Nutrition Laboratory of ORSTOM at Montpellier (France) for hosting the Consultation and assisting in the preparation of its report; UNICEF and UNU for their financial and technical support; and the Programme for International Nutrition at the University of California at Davis (USA) for its scientific input. Special thanks are also due to Dr Djamil Benbouzid for his technical and organizational inputs.

Table of Contents
Table of contents Page Executive summary Background and objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Opening session: Welcoming addrcss by ORSTOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Introductory remarks by WHO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Introductoly remarks by UNICEF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Session 1 1.1 The state-of-the-art review . description of h e process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.2 Scci~economica nd cultural context of child feeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3 Breast.feeding. infant growth and the age of introduction of complementary f d s 9 1.4 Duration of thc necd for special tmnsitional foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Session 2 2.1 Energy and nutrient requirements from complementary foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.2 Energy density, frequency of feeding and other factors affecting the intake of complementary foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.3 Inlroduction of the working groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Scssion 3 3.1 First Report of thc working groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Working group I : Resource and environmental constraints in complementary feeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Working group 2: Energy density of complementary foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Working group 3: Care issues in relation to complementriry feeding . . . . . . . . . 17 Working group 4: T i g of the inlroduction of complementary foods . . . . . . . 17 3.2 Protein and micronutrient requirements from complementary foods of infants and young children up to 2 years of age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Session 4 4.1 Food quality and processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Session 5 5.1 Child fccding practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5.2 Programmatic intwventions to improve complementary fceding . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5.3 A review of some programmes that aim to improve complementary feeding practices through behaviour change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Recommendations: Feeding recomrncndations; Research recoinmendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Annex 1 MeetingAgmda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Annex I1 The Joint WHORTNICEF Complementary Feeding Initiativc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Anncx IIIa WHO Global Data Bank on Brcast-feeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Anncx Illb Exclusive breast-feeding and mcdian duration of breast.feeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Amcx IIIc Indicators & defitions of breast-feeding practices at household & health-facility lcvcls 42 Annex IV Energy density of foods required to attain different total daily encrgy intakes at various feeding frequencies (Table 13 of the state-of-the-art paper). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Annex V Encrgy nceded from complementary foods for children in developing countries (Tablc 11 of the state-of-the-art paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Annex VI List of panicipants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47