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We have often seen that mothers of children who are not starting other foods
by six months are subject to scare tactics that their children are
malnourished. I thought that weighing and measuring healthy children who
are not taking other foods would be the way to go to detect malnutrition,
and of course if the child is showing any signs of ill health, doing any
appropriate diagnostics to rule out suspicions of specific deficiencies
resulting from diet. It seems some pediatricians, including at least one in
Norway, staunchly believe that even if a child is growing and developing as
expected, is not anemic nor showing any signs of ill health, the child is
still *by definition* malnourished if it is exclusively breastfed past the
age of 6 months.
So, is anyone aware of a better way to assess nutritional status than
biometrics, supplemented with biochemical markers as needed? What am I
missing? Susan Burger, and any other nutritionists, and all you dietitians
out there - can you help me?
In all sincerity,
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway
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