Nutrition Through The Life Cycle
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Author: Brown, Judith E.
Publisher: Cengage Learning,
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Introduction: Complementary food is usually included in dietary plans to assist balanced nutritional benefits. These include semisolids, liquid, and solids that needed to be introduced in the diet of an infant besides breast milk or formula milk, usually after the six months of age. A complementary food provides the essential nutrients that are required for the growth and development of the infant, but have to be selected carefully in order to avoid the advent of untoward nutritional imbalance.
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