Chronic Malnutrition, Breastfeeding, and Ready To Use Supplementary Food in a Guatemalan Maya Town

• Published in: Human organization Vol. 73; no. 1; pp. 72 - 81
• Main Authors: Davis, Thomas E., Fischer, Edward F., Rohloff, Peter J., Heimburger, Douglas C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oklahoma City Society for Applied Anthropology 01.04.2014; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Age; Biomedical research; Biomedicine; Breast milk; Breast-feeding; Breastfeeding; Breastfeeding & lactation; Child nutrition; Children; Children & youth; Clinical trials; Complementary foods; Dietary supplements; Effectiveness; Ethnography; Focus groups; Food; Food supply; Health Interventions in Maya and Hispanic Communities; Households; Malnutrition; Medical Research; Medicine; Milk; Mothers; NGOs; Nongovernmental organizations; Physical growth; Public Health; Rural Areas; Social Support; Studies; Values; Womens health; Guatemala; United States > US

Ready To Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) and Ready To Use Supplementary Food (RUSF) have proliferated in recent years to treat acute and chronic malnutrition. Biomedical research has established the efficacy of these products, yet little is known about their actual effectiveness in real world settings....