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UNIVERSAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SOME WEANING PRACTICES DO MAKE SENSE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2002

ERIK BØHLER
ERIK BØHLER
Affiliation:
Department of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
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Abstract

In the July 2001 issue of the Journal of Biosocial Science Tina Moffat presents an interesting study from Nepal (Moffat, 2001). She refers to several studies, among them our study from Nepal’s neighbouring country Bhutan (Bøhler & Ingstad, 1996), to show that weaning practices are determined by different aspects of the environment, and thus cannot be made universal. However, she goes on to conclude that the recommendation of exclusive breast-feeding for 6 months may not be appropriate for the population she studied. This part of her conclusion is, in my view, far from sufficiently supported by her data.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , July 2002 , pp. 419 - 420
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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