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Programs of Supplemental Feeding and Weaning Food Development

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Nutrition Policy Implementation

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The principal issues related to programs of supplementary feeding concern: (1) the desirability, timing, and nature of weaning foods to complement breast milk; (2) the usefulness, or lack of it, of supplementary feeding programs for older preschool children and for school children; (3) the value of supplementary feeding programs for pregnant and lactating women; (4) the role of supplementary feeding programs for adult workers; and (5) the identification of methods of supplementary feeding that will reach target groups however they are designated. This paper will concentrate mainly on the issues involved in supplementary feeding of the preschool child during and following the weaning period.

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  1. International Nutrition Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Nevin S. Scrimshaw

  2. World Hunger Programme, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan

    Nevin S. Scrimshaw

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

    Nevin S. Scrimshaw (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser) (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser)

  2. MIT/Harvard International Food and Nutrition Program, USA

    Nevin S. Scrimshaw (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser) & Mitchel B. Wallerstein (Associate Director, Lecturer) (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser) &  (Associate Director, Lecturer)

  3. World Hunger Program, United Nations University, USA

    Nevin S. Scrimshaw (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser) (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser)

  4. Departments of Political Science and Nutrition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

    Mitchel B. Wallerstein (Associate Director, Lecturer) (Associate Director, Lecturer)

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Scrimshaw, N.S. (1982). Programs of Supplemental Feeding and Weaning Food Development. In: Scrimshaw, N.S., Wallerstein, M.B. (eds) Nutrition Policy Implementation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4091-1_7

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