What’s New in Breastfeeding？
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2024 | Viewed by 150
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutrition; obesity; pregnancy; breastfeeding; smoking cessation; smoke avoidance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Breastfeeding is the recommended and most healthy form of infant feeding, which in many cases ensures the health and survival of children. Breastfeeding provides nutrients for healthy growth and antibodies, which help prevent many common childhood diseases. Breast milk also offers many long-term benefits, such as reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and childhood cancers, as well as decreasing the risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and endometrial cancer. Many psychosocial, environmental, and societal factors affect breastfeeding, which are often the target of successful interventions to improve breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity, and delayed cessation.
Our Special Issue aims to discuss all the effects of breastfeeding on the nutrition and health of mothers and children and the effects of nutrition and dietary intake on breastfeeding. Additionally, we will explore community, clinical, and policy interventions to increase breastfeeding success and look forward to the latest research innovations and findings being discussed here. We invite interested researchers to submit original research and review articles relating to this topic. Papers that combine a high academic level and practical focus are particularly welcome.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Patricia Markham Risica
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- breastfeeding
- lactation
- maternal nutrition
- nutritional epidemiology
- human milk
- pediatric nutrition
- breastfeeding interventions
