title: Introduction of solid foods to African American and Anglo American low-birth-weight and full-term infants.
abstract: A secondary data analysis of 7,174 infants explores the use of cereal, fruits and vegetables, and meats with African-American and Anglo-American very-low-birth-weight (VLBW), low-birth-weight (LBW) and term infants over the first five months after discharge. The first solid foods offered were cereal for African-American infants and fruits and vegetables for Anglo infants. There are statistically significant differences in the number of feedings offered by the two ethnic groups. During the last two-to-three months, African-American term and LBW infants received all solid foods more frequently than Anglo infants. Neither ethnic group followed current feeding practice recommendations on when to introduce solid food.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bishop
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Malloy
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D014481:United States; D014886:Weaning; D044465:White People