Sentences with phrase «culturally acceptable food»

About Blog Toronto is a municipal food policy leader, with a long history working to ensure access to healthy, affordable, sustainable and culturally acceptable food.

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Priority should be placed on locally available, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate and age - appropriate foods.

Although multigenerational households are culturally acceptable in black communities24 and are often beneficial to mothers and their children, 25 tensions are common as mothers and grandmothers struggle to define their roles in caregiving activities, such as feeding.24, 26 — 29 Grandmothers play important roles in infant feeding decisions, particularly related to the early introduction of complementary foods.21 Thus, interventions aimed at shifting cultural patterns of early complementary feeding have to go beyond the provision of information regarding the type and timing of complementary foods for infants, as proposed by the AAP, WIC, and WHO guidelines.