PMID- 15463999
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20041116
LR  - 20081121
IS  - 1570-677X (Print)
IS  - 1570-677X (Linking)
VI  - 2
IP  - 1
DP  - 2004 Mar
TI  - Infant feeding practices and chronic child malnutrition in the Indian states of 
      Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh.
PG  - 139-58
AB  - As measured by degree of stunting, close to half of India's children suffer from 
      chronic malnutrition and about a quarter from severe chronic malnutrition. Data 
      from the 1998-1999 National Family Health Survey (NFHS) are analysed to assess 
      whether recommended infant feeding practices help to alleviate the prevalence of 
      stunting. The evidence supports some recommended practices, including the advice 
      that mother not squeeze the colostrum from her breasts, not use a feeding bottle 
      with a nipple, exclusive breastfeeding for the first 4-6 months and feeding 
      supplementary foods (solids and mushy foods) at about 7 months, and suggests 
      that, for some children, better feeding practices could reduce the prevalence of 
      severe stunting by up to 30%. The paper also examines a range of other issues 
      related to stunting--whether medical supplementations and inoculations have an 
      effect, whether mothers more actively involved in health decisions have less 
      stunted children, and the links between stunting, diarrhoea and anaemia. An 
      explanation is offered for the positive relationship between using oral 
      rehydration salts and stunting.
FAU - Brennan, Lance
AU  - Brennan L
AD  - School of Business Economics, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, 
      Australia.
FAU - McDonald, John
AU  - McDonald J
FAU - Shlomowitz, Ralph
AU  - Shlomowitz R
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Econ Hum Biol
JT  - Economics and human biology
JID - 101166135
SB  - IM
MH  - Bottle Feeding/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Breast Feeding/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Chronic Disease
MH  - Female
MH  - Growth Disorders/epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - India/epidemiology
MH  - Infant
MH  - *Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - Male
MH  - Malnutrition
MH  - Risk Factors
EDAT- 2004/10/07 09:00
MHDA- 2004/11/17 09:00
CRDT- 2004/10/07 09:00
PHST- 2003/09/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2003/09/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2003/09/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2004/10/07 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/11/17 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/10/07 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S1570677X03000819 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.ehb.2003.09.003 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Econ Hum Biol. 2004 Mar;2(1):139-58. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2003.09.003.