The role of traditional foods for infants and young children in the Peruvian Amazon
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rationale. To understand the role of traditional foods in dietary quality and child growth, Awajún infant and young child feeding practices and nutritional status must be established. Methods. Research took place in 6 Awajún communities, Cenepa, Peru. Mothers completed repeat dietary recalls and infant feeding histories for their children (n= 32, 0–25 mo). Adequacy of complementary foods was compared to WHO guidelines. Anthropometry was measured to estimate nutritional status. Results. Based on dietary data some infants received adequate nutrition from breastfeeding and complementary foods; however, feeding practices varied. Complementary feeding from 12–23 months was nearer nutrient intake recommendations than for 6–11 months. Purchased or donated foods were not as nutrient dense as traditional foods. Overall, 39.4% of the children were stunted (HAZ <−2), with mean HAZ −1.71 ± SD 1.41. Nutritional status declined with increasing age. Conclusions. Several mothers practiced exclusive breastfeeding and appropriate complementary feeding with Awajún traditional foods; however, given the range of feeding practices, introduction of market foods and inadequate nutritional status of children, health promotion for infant and young child feeding is warranted. Funding: Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Institutes of Aboriginal Peoples Health (IAPH) & Population and Public Health (IPPH)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".