SACN report: feeding young children aged 1 to 5 years
This report from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) covers feeding young children aged 1 to 5 years.
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SACN has undertaken a comprehensive review of the scientific basis of current dietary recommendations for feeding young children aged 1 to 5 years. The report considers:
- national survey data on food and nutrient intakes and status, the prevalence of overweight and obesity, and dental caries
- evidence from systematic reviews examining a number of dietary factors and child, adolescent and adult health outcomes, as well as evidence on factors that influence eating and feeding behaviour, and diversification of the diet in the early years
The report includes SACN鈥檚 recommendations to government and recommendations for future research. The annexes provide detailed information on the methods used (including literature search), data extraction evidence tables, quality assessment and grading of the systematic review evidence, and additional analyses.
This report forms part of a wider piece of work by SACN considering the evidence underpinning recommendations for feeding children up to 5 years of age, of which the first part, 鈥楩eeding in the first year of life鈥�, was published in 2018.
You can聽view documents related to the consultation on the draft report. The documents include comments submitted during consultation and the response to each of these from聽SACN.
Updates to this page
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Amended summary and full reports as follows: minor edits to SACN membership list; minor edits to some sentences and tables to improve clarity and readability; increased heading levels of the last 6 headings in Chapter 2; amended paragraph 3.79 to correctly state the largest contributor of free sugars intake; corrected citation in paragraphs 8.15 and 8.16 and figures 8.1 and 8.2; edited the footnote numbering and locations in table 10.1 for clarity; and added an entry to the Glossary section for the 鈥楴ational Diet and Nutrition Survey鈥�, and changed the citation for the entries 'High income country', 'Lower middle income country', 'Low income country' and 'Upper middle income country'. All other updates were minor formatting changes and the correction of minor typographical errors. The annexes remain unchanged.
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First published.