For how long is exclusive breast-feeding adequate to satisfy the dietary energy needs of the average young baby?
This review is based on a lecture given in connection with the 1994 Nutricia Foundation Award. It describes how recent research findings in infant dietary energy requirements have provided a firm quantitative basis for the widely quoted pediatric view that exclusive breast-feeding should provide sufficient nourishment for the average child until 4-6 mo of age.
Whitehead
R G
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Medical Research Council Dunn Nutrition Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
D001834:Body Water; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002149:Energy Intake; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000737:chemistry; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D014480:United Nations; D014886:Weaning; D014944:World Health Organization