Lozano GCH, Flores TME

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The goals of a diet for the first year o life and ablacting are to provide and adequate energy intake for the accelerated growth and development of this phase of life, as well as to establish solid eating habits.
The rhythm of physical growth that takes place during the first weeks of postnatal life is not comparable at all to that of the normal healthy subjects of other ages and this high rate of growth exercises a great impact on nutritional requirements. At the beginning a substantial part of energy and other essential nutrients needs, are used in the formation of new tissue (growth).