It is a campaign on the promotion of breastfeeding to which WHO,UNICEF and all Asian countries are now commited. Many nations have now adopted measures based on the 1981 Would Health Assembly’s International Code on the Marketing of Breas Milk Subtitutes and many manufactures of infant formula have begun to change their marketing practices towards an accordance with the Code.
Food supplement, the intervention to get more food to undernourished is almost certainly the cost-effective single point at which to reduce the incidence of low birth weight and infant deaths.
Ensuring that the breast fed infant recives nutritous multimixed from the age of 4 months onward which should consist of locally available, culturally acceptable,inexpensive dishs, suitable for the feeding of young infants,with an adequate blend of protein of good quality and sufficient calories,as well as needed vitamins and minerals.All countires in the region have their own reseach and implement on Home Based Supplementary Food. In some countries,They have used food subsidies as one of the mean doing so.
Finally I would like to end my presentaion with the theme of the Fourth Asian Congress of Nutrition Better Nutrition Better Life and infant feeding is starting point.
The adequate level of energy and protein intake of the children in nurseries(2-3 years)
ABSTRACT Observations on the nutrient intake and physical growth of the children in 2 nurseries A and B had been conducted for 3 years. The results showd that when the energy and protein intake of the children in nursery A were about 90% and 80% respectively of the RDA, i.e., about 90kcal and 2.8 g protein per kg body weight per day, the body weight and height reached the normal average value.When the energy and protein intake of the children in nursery B were 83% and 75% respectively of the RDA, the body weight and height were lower than normal. The intake of other nutrients, except ascorbic acid, were lower in nursery B than A. Supplementation of a protein rich food to the children in nursery B showed that low energy intake and delaved growth, and the lack of other minor nutrients may be the real cause.
Introduction
Most of the young mothers in our country have work to do, so they have to send their babies to the nurseies. Factories, educational or other institutions or people’s commune have their own nurseries.Babies from 6 months to 3 years old are admitted by the child institutions.
Children affer one year old usually take 3 meals and one snack a day in the nursery, so the quantity and quality of the foods afforded by the nurseries are of first importance for the normal growth and good health of the children. Investigation on the composition of the diet and nutrients intake was made for the purpose of establishing a reference standard.
Method
The relationship between nutrients intake and body weight and height
After a number of nutritional surveys conducted in many nurseries in Bejing, two were selected for the observation of the relationship between nutrients intake and the health of children, as reflected by the growth rate. Nursery A represented those nurseries where the children have comparatively higher level of nutrient intake,and nursery B represented those nurseries where the children have lower level of nutreint take due to lower boarding expense. The children in these nurseries were 2-3 years old. Dietary surveys in these two nurseries were conducted for three years, and body weight and height of the children were recorded at three minth interval.
The levels of nutrients intake were expressed as the percentage of the amount of recommended dietary aloowance (RDA)(1) of every particular nutrient. The results of the body weight and height of the children were expressed as the percentage of the average values from a survey conducted by Professor Chin of Bejing Medical College in 1956(2) on selected children of good nutrtional status.