Journal of General Practice

Department of Nursing, Arsi University, Asella, Ethiopia

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Factors Associated towards Mothers Practicing Acceptable Diet of 6-23 Months Old Children in Gimbichu Woreda, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
  Author(s): Techane Sisay Tuji* and Addisu Dabi Wake
  
  The infant young child feeding model of World Health Organization (WHO) suggests introducing complementary food for new born babies starting at the sixth month. Breast milk has to be round out by any other foods to fill the nutrient demand of the child. These complementary foods are required to fill the calorie, protein and micronutrient gap between the total nutritional need of the child and the amount contributed by the breast milk. Sufficient complementary food has to be diversified and prepared from different food groups in a solid or semisolid form and needs to be commenced timely from the sixth month of the child’s age by implementing the quality of foods consumed as the child get older... Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2329-9126.22.10.463

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