[Investigation of nutrition and feeding status among children under 2 years in Beijing].
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the nutrition status, breast feeding and complementary feeding among children under 2 years of age in Beijing.


METHODS
A stratified cluster randomly sampling method was used. After having got the compliance a questionnaire survey was carried out to 422 children < 2 year-old in total 18 districts of Beijing.


RESULTS
The average infant birth weight was 3325 g, the rate of weight (2500 g and > or = 4000 g were 2.8% and 13.0% respectively. The rate of exclusive breast-feeding, partial breast-feeding, bottle-feeding of infant under 4 months was 56.6%, 33.9% and 9.5% respectively. The average weaning time was 7.4 months. The rate of complementary feeding of infant up to 6 months was 99.4%. The average ages for addition of complementary feeding such as cereal, vegetable and fruit, egg, oil, nutrients in rural areas were later than those in urban.


CONCLUSIONS
It is important to promote breast feeding and improve complementary feeding by education and intervention.
Zhao
Yao
Y
Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China.
Huang
Lei
L
Zhang
Zheng
Z
Pang
Xing-huo
XH
Sha
Yi-mei
YM
Dong
Zhong
Z
D001903:Bottle Feeding / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002681:China; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data