OBJECTIVE: To assess adherence to infant feeding recommendations among a sample of infants and toddlers four to 24 months of age in the United States. DESIGN: Descriptive analysis of data collected in the 2002 Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) based on telephone interviews and 24-hour dietary recalls collected with the Nutrition Data System for Research of the University of Minnesota. SUBJECTS: A national random sample of 3,022 infants and toddlers age four to 24 months, including 2,024 infants age four to 11 months. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Breastfeeding, timing of introduction of complementary foods, and adherence to infant feeding recommendations. STATISTICAL ANALYSES: Means and standard errors, percentile distributions, and percentages by age group (four to six months, seven to eight months, and nine to 11 months). RESULTS: About 76% of infants and toddlers were fully or partly breastfed at birth. This percentage declined to 30% at six months and 16% at 12 months-short of Healthy People 2010 goals of 50% and 25%, respectively. The average duration of breastfeeding was 5.5 months for all who initiated breastfeeding. About two-thirds of infants had been introduced to complementary foods between four and six months-the period recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP); 17% consumed juice before the AAP recommended age of six months or later. Twenty-two percent of infants nine to 11 months consumed cow’s milk on a daily basis before the recommended age of 12 months or later, and one in 10 consumed french fries and\/or sweetened beverages on any given day. APPLICATIONS\/CONCLUSIONS: More parents and caregivers can benefit from guidance about the introduction of developmentally appropriate, micronutrient-rich first solid foods such as iron-rich infant cereals, iron-fortified grain products, meats, soft fruits, and cooked vegetables and the importance of breastfeeding through the first year of life. A smaller proportion of parents and caregivers require guidance on delaying the introduction of juices until six months of age and cow’s milk other than formula until one year of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","mots_cles":[],"class_list":["post-52681","resume","type-resume","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"adresse":"Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Washington, DC 20024, USA. rbiefel@mathematica-mpr.com","annee":"2004","mois":"1","numero":"104:1S","page":"S31-S7","auteurs":[{"ID":13119,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 18:54:29","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 17:54:29","post_content":"","post_title":"Kathleen C Reidy","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"kathleen-c-reidy","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 18:54:29","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 17:54:29","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/kathleen-c-reidy\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":50646,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-04 05:20:08","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-04 04:20:08","post_content":"","post_title":"Devaney","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"devaney","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-04 05:20:08","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-04 04:20:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/devaney\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":13118,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 18:54:28","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 17:54:28","post_content":"","post_title":"Ronette R Briefel","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ronette-r-briefel","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 18:54:28","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 17:54:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/ronette-r-briefel\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":52680,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-04 06:07:02","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-04 05:07:02","post_content":"","post_title":"Karwe","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"karwe","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-04 06:07:02","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-04 05:07:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/karwe\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"sources":[{"ID":45166,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-04 03:37:42","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-04 02:37:42","post_content":"","post_title":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"journal-of-american-dietetic-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-04 03:37:42","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-04 02:37:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/source\/journal-of-american-dietetic-association\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"source","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n