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Author Palmer, Gabrielle

Title Complementary Feeding
Published London : Pinter & Martin Ltd, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part One: The Big Picture; 1 Entitlement to food; 2 Entitlement to water; 3 Medicalising undernutrition and poverty; 4 Fair distribution; 5 What is complementary feeding?; 6 Politics; 7 Nutrition; Part Two: A Closer Look; 8 Food and nutrition: an historical perspective; 9 Evolution and food systems; 10 Salty, sweet and fat: the human drives for taste; 11 Human plumpness; 12 The timing of complementary feeding; 13 What did prehistoric young children eat?; 14 Are cereals appropriate foods for babies?
15 A word about animal milk16 Why don't we give our babies molluscs and insects?; 17 Cultural and religious beliefs; Part Three: Processes for Change; 18 The language of food; 19 Is a 'local' diet possible and good enough for infants and young children?; 20 A lesson from history: the example of wartime UK; 21 A contemporary lesson: the US Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC); 22 The majority world; Afterword: health for all?; Appendices; I Insects and other invertebrates as food; II A nutrient example: iron
III Additional information on the British 'Food for Victory' campaignIV Additional information on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC); References; Index
Summary Gabrielle Palmer's groundbreaking book The Politics of Breastfeeding highlighted the controversies surrounding the aggressive promotion of breastmilk substitutes. She now turns her attention to complementary feeding - the first foods that a child eats besides milk. For most of human existence, children went without industrially processed foods and branded food products. Can we applaud the progress of the way children are fed today? In our unequal world one billion people risk their health through overconsumption while two billion people are hungry. The health problems of both groups start in
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120) and index
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Subject Infants -- Nutrition -- History
Nutritional anthropology.
Nutrition disorders -- Social aspects
Infants -- Nutrition.
Politics, Practical.
Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Diet -- ethnology
Nutrition Disorders -- ethnology
Politics
Child Welfare
politics.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Politics, Practical
Infants -- Nutrition
Nutritional anthropology
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781780662848
178066284X
9781905177431
1905177437