Transcript Infant Feeding and Climate Change Chwang Leh-Chii Taiwan BF Forum 8 UB, Mongolia Sept. 14, 2011 LCChwang, BF Forum 8, 2011

Infant Feeding and Climate Change
Chwang Leh-Chii
Taiwan
BF Forum 8
UB, Mongolia
Sept. 14, 2011
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Feeding Practice in Taiwan
Year
Age EB
(month) (%)
Mix
(%)
FF
(%)
Year
Age
EB
(month) (%)
Mix
(%)
FF
(%)
2010
1
2
4
6
58.5
48.4
36.2
26.3
85.4
70.6
53.6
46.0
41.5
51.6
63.8
73.7
2008
1
2
4
6
54.3
37.9
25.8
15.9
72.9
54.3
39.9
32.4
45.7
62.1
74.2
84.1
2009
1
2
4
6
56.7
44.0
34.3
22.4
81.3
63.6
49.8
41.6
43.3
56.0
65.7
77.6
2004
0
1
4
6
29.4
33.2
16.9
13.1
57.6
54.2
27.5
19.8
71.6
66.8
83.1
86.9
EB: Exclusive Breast Feeding
FF: Formula Feeding
Source: Health Promote Bureau, 2011
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Feeding Practice in Taiwan
1 month
2 month
100
100
90
90
80
80
70
70
60
60
% 50
% 50
40
40
30
30
20
20
10
10
0
2004
2008
2009
2010
0
EB
Mix
FF
EB
4 month
Mix
FF
6 month
100
100
90
90
80
80
70
70
60
60
% 50
% 50
40
40
30
30
20
20
10
10
0
0
EB
Mix
FF
Source: Health Promote Bureau, 2011
EB
Mix
FF
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Trends in Formula Feeding (%)
Age
2004
2008
2010
2010-2008
2010-2004
1 month
71.6
45.7
41.5
↓ 4.2
↓ 30.1
2 month
66.8
62.1
51.6
↓ 10.5
↓ 15.2
4 month
83.1
74.2
63.8
↓ 10.4
↓ 19.3
6 month
86.9
84.1
73.7
↓ 10.4
↓ 13.2
Source: Health Promote Bureau, 2011
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Commercial Complementary Feeding Practice
• Only 20% caregivers used commercial baby foods
(US 73%, 90% for full-time working mothers).
i.e. The majority of complementary foods are
home made.
• Major complementary foods are baby cereals,
fruit/vegetable juice or pureed, porridge,
fish, egg, purred meat, to-fu.
Source: 2005-2008 NAHSIT
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Trends in Commercial Complementary Feeding
• Half infant started juice at age 4-6 months,
baby cereal at age 7-12 months,
biscuits at age 10-12 months.
• Recommendation: caregivers use spoon to feed infants
pureed foods and avoid mixing with milk powder in milk
bottle.
However, 75% infants get foods from bottle.
• Commercial products of baby cereal mixed with milk
powder are getting popular.
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Trends in Commercial Complementary Feeding
• Mothers are the main decision makes (80%) in
complementary foods.
 Mothers are target person for education
• Current recommendation to introduce
complementary foods.
4-6 month starting from with baby cereal, F/V juice,
7-9 month: pureed, semi-liquid food,
8 month: fruit, 9 month: whole egg.
 in respond to EB up to 6 month,
recommendation should be revised.
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Infant Formula Imported to Taiwan
Year
Imported
(1,000Kg)
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
11,647
9,276
8,520
7,767
8,048
7,788
7,938
6,864
5,941
6,590
Birth rate
‰
Value
NT$ (billion)
US$ (million)
11.7
11.0
10.1
9.6
9.1
9.0
8.9
8.5
8.3
7.2
Source: Directorate General of Customs, Ministry of Finance
Department of Health
22.3
18.1
16.5
15.2
15.7
16.1
17.3
16.7
16.3
17.3
74.3
60.3
55.0
50.6
52.3
53.6
57.6
55.6
54.3
57.6
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Possible Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions
from Infant Formula, 2010, Taiwan
• 4,356Kg powder formula = 66.7 tons CO2
• 6,590,000Kg formula* = 100,907 tons CO2
Age <1
Age =1
Age =2
157,282
194,878
199,174
551,334 babies
183 Kg Co2/baby
1 tree (40 years) = 400~700 Kg Co2
* Infant formula including follow up formula and liquid formula
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Thank You!
We must become the change we want to see…
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
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