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Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between maternal nutritional knowledge and anthropometric indices in children under 2 years of age. The Infant Nutrition Attitude Scale (IOWA) was administered to all participated mothers. The IOWA was developed to assess women's attitudes toward breastfeeding and their choice of infant feeding method. The IOWA score of mothers who fed their infants only formula and only complementary foods was found to be statistically significantly lower than the IOWA score of mothers who breastfed (p < .05). In summary, the higher the IOWA score, the longer the duration of breastfeeding. No statistically significant correlation was found between the IOWA and infants' anthropometric measurements (p > .05).
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Ecology of Food and Nutrition is an international journal of food and nutrition in the broadest sense. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of food and nutrition -- ecological, biological, and cultural. Ecology of Food and Nutrition strives to become a forum for disseminating scholarly information on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of the study of food and nutrition. It emphasizes foods and food systems not only in terms of their utilization to satisfy human nutritional needs and health, but also to promote and contest social and cultural identity. The content scope is thus wide -- articles may focus on the relationship between food and nutrition, food taboos and preferences, ecology and political economy of food, the evolution of human nutrition, changes in food habits, food technology and marketing, food and identity, and food sustainability. Additionally, articles focusing on the application of theories and methods to address contemporary food and nutrition problems are encouraged. Questions of the relationship between food/nutrition and culture are as germane to the journal as analyses of the interactions among nutrition and environment, infection and human health.
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