1. Evaluation of meat as a first complementary food for breastfed infants: impact on iron intake
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Antoinette Tshefu, Elizabeth M. McClure, K. Michael Hambidge, Tianjiang Jiang, Jamie E Westcott, Ana Garces, Marion Koso-Thomas, Linda L. Wright, Elwyn Chomba, Norman Goco, Dinghua Li, Waldemar A. Carlo, Carl L. Bose, Robert L. Goldenberg, Albert Manasyan, Neelofar Sami, Nancy F. Krebs, Omrana Pasha, Manolo Mazariegos, Adrien Lokangaka, and Xiaoyang Sheng
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Iron intake ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,business.industry ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Developing country ,Complementary food ,law.invention ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,Environmental health ,Medicine ,Food science ,business ,Breast feeding - Abstract
The rationale for promoting the availability of local, affordable, non-fortified food sources of bioavailable iron in developing countries is considered in this review. Intake of iron from the regular consumption of meat from the age of 6 months is evaluated with respect to physiological requirements. Two major randomized controlled trials evaluating meat as a first and regular complementary food are described in this article. These trials are presently in progress in poor communities in Guatemala, Pakistan, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and China.
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- 2011
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