EAT FOR HEALTH
                                                                                                                                                                       Infant Feeding 
                                                                                                                                                                                Guidelines
                                                                                                                                                                                     SUMMARY
                                                         
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                                                            EAT FOR HEALTH
                                         Infant Feeding Guidelines
                                                  Information for health workers
                                                                       SUMMARY
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                           contents
                           How to use this resource                                                      1
                           Disclaimer 1
                           Overview 2
                           Breastfeeding 3
                           Promotion of supportive social and physical environments  
                           for breastfeeding                                                             4
                           Special considerations                                                        6
                           When an infant is not receiving breastmilk                                    7
                           Other fluids in infant feeding                                                9
                           The transition to solid foods                                                10
                           After 12 months                                                              12
                           Caring for infants’ food                                                     13
                           Nutrition in the second year of life                                         14
                           Other aspects of infant nutrition                                            15
                               Food allergies                                                           15
                               Colic 15
                               Constipation 16
                               Dietary fat                                                              16
                               Dental caries                                                            17
                               Diarrhoeal disease                                                       18
                                                                          Infant Feeding Guidelines: Summary      iii
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