Research has shown that optimum maternal and child nutrition can reduce the incidence of chronic conditions ranging from obesity, food allergy and asthma, to cardiovascular disease and cancers. This exciting book, edited by Fiona Dykes and Victoria Hall Moran and with a foreword from Gretel Pelto, explores in an integrated context the varied factors associated with infant and child nutrition, including global feeding strategies, cultural factors, issues influencing breastfeeding, and economic and life cycle influences. Carefully drawn together and edited, recognising the many complexities and challenges that face practitioners working in the field, this landmark publication offers practical suggestions in this vitally important subject. Infant and Young Child Feeding: Offers crucial insights into implementation of a Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding Illuminates the complex challenges for nutritionists, dieticians and other health and social care professionals in implementing international guidelines within local cultural settings Includes contributions from leading international experts in the field All libraries in universities, medical schools and research establishments where nutrition and dietetics, midwifery, medicine, nursing, health studies and social sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this crucially important book on their shelves.

Research has shown that optimum maternal and child nutrition canreduce the incidence of chronic conditions ranging from obesityfood allergy and asthma, to cardiovascular disease andcancers.This exciting book, edited by Fiona Dykes and Victoria Hall Moranand with a foreword from Gretel Pelto, explores in an integratedcontext the varied factors associated with infant and childnutrition, including global feeding strategies, cultural factorsissues influencing breastfeeding, and economic and life cycleinfluences. Carefully drawn together and edited, recognising themany complexities and challenges that face practitioners working inthe field, this landmark publication offers practical suggestionsin this vitally important subject.Infant and Young Child Feeding:* Offers crucial insights into implementation of a GlobalStrategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding* Illuminates the complex challenges for nutritionistsdieticians and other health and social care professionals inimplementing international guidelines within local culturalsettings* Includes contributions from leading international experts inthe fieldAll libraries in universities, medical schools and researchestablishments where nutrition and dietetics, midwifery, medicinenursing, health studies and social sciences are studied and taughtshould have copies of this crucially important book on theirshelves.

Contributor biographies.Foreword by Gretel H. Pelto.1 From Grand Design to Change on the Ground: Going to Scale with a Global Feeding Strategy.2 A Biocultural Basis for Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding.3 Feeding Preterm Infants in Sweden: Challenges to Implementing the Global Strategy in a Pro-Breastfeeding Culture.4 From 'to Learn' to 'To Know': Women's Embodied Knowledge of Breastfeeding in Japan.5 Breastfeeding and Poverty: Negotiating Cultural Change and Symbolic Capital of Motherhood in Québec, Canada.6 Achieving Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices: Case Studies from Tanzania and Rwanda.7 Bodies in the Making: Reflections on Women's Consumption Practices in Pregnancy.8 Homeless Mothers and Their Children: Two Generations at Nutritional Risk.9 Lifecycle Influences and Opportunities for Change.10 Use of Economics to Analyse Policies to Promote Breastfeeding.11 Complex Challenges to Implementing the Global Strategy for Infant andYoung Child Feeding.Index.