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While access to sufficient food is a problem for many households (FAO estimates that 841 million persons still suffer from food inadequacy), it is less frequently the major constraint to adequate development of young children: they actually need only very small amounts of nutrient dense foods, but need them several times a day. Inadequate caring practices (e.g. sub-optimal
    breastfeeding, inappropriate or infrequent feeding of complementary foods...) & insufficient access to health services (e.g. lack of immunization) & a healthy environment ,(e.g. no clean water, poor sanitary facilities) are often the major obstacles to adequate nutrition of young children.
    Actions which facilitate the daily deliberate actions and decisions made by parents for their young children, e.g. alleviating the workload of mothers, growth promotion activities (not just growth monitoring), protection of breastfeeding (which should be exclusive for the first 6 months and continued with appropriate complementary foods for 2 years and beyond) are critical.

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