Open AccessSouth African paediatric food‐based dietary guidelines
Author(s) -
Bourne Lesley T.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
maternal and child nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1740-8709
pISSN - 1740-8695
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2007.00107.x
Subject(s) - medicine , overnutrition , public health , focus group , environmental health , pediatrics , gerontology , family medicine , malnutrition , nursing , pathology , marketing , business
South African efforts to address both under‐ and overnutrition , and other nutrition‐related public health issues, utilizing food‐based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) as an educational tool, are introduced. However, the focus is placed on the development of paediatric FBDGs for infants and young children, from birth up to the age of 7 years, and how these were made compatible with scientific and local public health evidence on the one hand, and existing South African FBDGs for children over the age of 7 years, adolescents and adults, on the other. Members of the Working Group and other stakeholders are gratefully acknowledged.