Ministry of Health will measure breastfeeding

During this year (2011), the practice of Breastfeeding in Mexico and it will generate a national consensus to establish the criteria and strategies for prophylactic and therapeutic supplementation of iron in childhood, with the aim of preventing and treating anemia ferro priva , announced the Secretary of Health, José Ángel Córdova Villalobos.

When inaugurating the Institute of Pediatric Nutrition of Mead Johnson NutritionHe stressed that during this year special emphasis will be placed on preventive measures that benefit the children population , like exclusive breastfeeding, since currently only 40% of mothers practice it.

The Secretary of Health stressed that exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months has broad benefits from the affective point of view because it significantly increases the mother-child relationship; It provides nutrients that can not be obtained from another food, it is a protective factor of diseases and generator of defenses.

Before the medical director of Mead Johnson for Latin America, Eduardo Álvarez , and the general director of this company in Mexico, George Bernard , Cordova Villalobos pointed out that there will be more dissemination of the correct way to put children under one year old, which must be face up, to avoid the death of a baby, which each year takes the lives of 1,500 children.

He mentioned that the dependency under his charge developed a Nutrition Manual for children under 10 years old, based on anthropometric techniques, food orientation, physical activity, malnutrition, overweight Y obesity , and audio-visual material for the promotion of food health was developed to be disseminated in the waiting rooms of the health units and local television stations of the states.

Source: General Directorate of Social Communication. Health Secretary.


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