Sentences with phrase «promote complementary food»

Similarly, Nestlé's assurance that it does not promote complementary food for use before 6 months of age is a reversal that took concerted campaigning to achieve.

It took a nine - year by Baby Milk Action and its partners to persuade Nestlé to stop promoting complementary foods from before 6 months of age.

Nestlé promoted complementary foods (i.e. purées, juices and other baby foods) for use from 4 months of age or even earlier.

Nestlé only agreed to stop promoting complementary food before 6 months in 2003, announcing it during a week of demonstrations at Nestlé sites in the UK.

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Multiple approaches are needed to combat VAD, including nutrition education and consuming a diverse and nutrient rich diet; promoting breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices; vitamin A capsule supplementation; food fortification; and other public health measures aimed at the control of infectious diseases.

Three key messages in the article promote Danone's agenda: the suggestion that government should cooperate with the food industry, that nutrition if you are breastfeeding is complex and that there is a lot of confusion about how long to exclusively breastfeed (with the implication that the clear guidance from the Department of Health to exclusively breastfeed until 6 months and then continue while introducing complementary foods is wrong — Danone promotes products for use from 4 months).

Any food or drink given before complementary feeding is nutritionally required may interfere with breastfeeding and therefore should neither be promoted nor encouraged for use by infants during this period.

In particular it promotes baby foods for use from too early an age, contrary to Department of Health (DH) and World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations on exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months, followed by the introduction of complementary foods with continued breastfeeding.

In another example, we campaigned for 9 years to force Nestlé to accept a 1994 World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution saying that complementary feeding should be fostered from 6 months of age — Nestlé routinely promoted such foods for use from 4 months of age or even less.

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(a) any food or drink given before complementary feeding is nutritionally required may interfere with the initiation or maintenance of breastfeeding and therefore should neither be promoted nor encouraged for use by infants during this period;

While claiming the journalist had written up the discussion independently, the inherent bias meant the article promoted the company's objectives by suggesting nutrition for successful breastfeeding is complex and not well understood, that complementary foods should be introduced earlier than Department of Health recommendations and that «collaboration between government and the food industry» was necessary to educate parents and parents - to - be.

Although the paper called this intervention «dietary counselling», we have included it as a breastfeeding support intervention because its main purpose was to promote exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months followed by healthy complementary foods, and it involved regular visits during the first year of life.

Because decisions about feeding are often made by grandmothers, based on their beliefs that complementary foods reduce infants» crying and promote nighttime sleeping, the intervention was designed to include mother — grandmother negotiation strategies, communication strategies to read infants» cues, and behavioral strategies, other than feeding, to manage crying and sleeping.