Research has shown that optimum maternal and child nutrition canreduce the incidence of chronic conditions ranging from obesity,food allergy and asthma, to cardiovascular disease andcancers.This exciting book, edited by Fiona Dykes and Victoria Hall Moranand with a foreword from Gretel Pelto, explores in an integratedcontext the varied factors associated with infant and childnutrition, including global feeding strategies, cultural factors,issues influencing breastfeeding, and economic and life cycleinfluences. Carefully drawn together and edited, recognising themany complexities and challenges that face practitioners working inthe field, this landmark publication offers practical suggestionsin this vitally important subject.Infant and Young Child Feeding:* Offers crucial insights into implementation of a GlobalStrategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding* Illuminates the complex challenges for nutritionists,dieticians and other health and social care professionals inimplementing international guidelines within local culturalsettings* Includes contributions from leading international experts inthe fieldAll libraries in universities, medical schools and researchestablishments where nutrition and dietetics, midwifery, medicine,nursing, health studies and social sciences are studied and taughtshould have copies of this crucially important book on theirshelves.