Breastfeeding should then be continued up to 2 years of age or beyond with the addition of
adequate complementary foods from 6 months of age.
Thereafter, children should continue to be breastfed, while receiving appropriate and
adequate complementary foods, for up to two years of age or beyond.
Improving access to nutritionally
adequate complementary foods — UNICEF provides caregiver nutrition education to improve complementary feeding.
measures to encourage early interventions in various settings through exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, introduction of nutritionally -
adequate complementary foods at the age of six months while breastfeeding continues for up to two years of age or beyond or taking into account available national recommendations;
Not exact matches
(1) Thereafter, to meet their evolving nutritional requirements, infants should receive nutritionally
adequate and safe
complementary foods while breastfeeding continues for up to two years of age or beyond.
«This is why we support the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendation of six months exclusive breastfeeding, followed by the introduction of
adequate nutritious
complementary foods along with sustained breastfeeding up to two years of age and beyond.»
The World Health Organization's (WHO) very stance on breastfeeding is a, «global public health recommendation, infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life... [then] infants should receive nutritionally
adequate and safe
complementary foods while breastfeeding continues for up to two years and beyond» (p. 7 - 8).
Thereafter, to meet their evolving nutritional requirements, infants should receive nutritionally
adequate and safe
complementary foods, while continuing to breastfeed for up to two years or beyond.
The initiative aims to increase early initiation, exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life and continued breastfeeding for up to two years or beyond, together with appropriate,
adequate and safe
complementary foods.
Strengthen government and citizens» actions that ensure
adequate maternal nutrition and
food security for all l Encourage production and use of appropriate indigenous
complementary foods.
The World Health Assembly adopted Resolution 47.5 in 1994 stating the importance of, «fostering appropriate
complementary feeding practices from the age of about six months, emphasizing continued breast - feeding and frequent feeding with safe and
adequate amounts of local
foods.»
It should be
adequate, meaning that the nutritional value of
complementary foods should parallel at least that of breast milk.
The adequacy of
complementary feeding (adequacy in short for timely,
adequate, safe and appropriate) not only depends on the availability of a variety of
foods in the household, but also on the feeding practices of caregivers.
It is essential therefore that infants receive appropriate,
adequate and safe
complementary foods to ensure the right transition from the breastfeeding period to the full use of family
foods.
Complementary protein
foods are
foods that are low in certain essential amino acids, but in combination, provide all 9 essential amino acids in amounts that allow synthesis of
adequate amounts of protein in the human body.