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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 19, 37-45, Copyright © 1966 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc.

Growth of Infants and Preschool Children in St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, West Indies

M. T. ASUCROFT D.M., D.P.H., D.T.M. & H.1, I. C. BUCHANAN M.R.S.H.1, H. G. LOVELL B.A., F.S.S.1, and B. WELSH P.H.N.1

1 From the Medical Research Council Epidemiological Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, and the Medical and Health Department, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, West Indies

Mean weights at various age intervals were calculated for Negro infants born in 1957 and 1958 and weighed frequently until five years old at clinics on the islands of St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla in the West Indies.

Compared with English and American infants, the rate of weight increase was less from the fourth to the twelfth month of life, and similar thereafter.

This pattern probably reflects the tendency to reduce breastfeeding in response to social and economic pressures. Supplementary feeding is also inadequate although it has improved somewhat as a result of education and the free distribution of milk.






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