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Jeyakumar, Angeline, Prasad Babar, Pramila Menon, et al. PLOS One, December 2022

This study finds that boys in India had higher rates of stunting and wasting, and bottle feeding increased the odds of wasting, severe stunting, underweight, and obesity. Bottle feeding increased the odds of wasting and severe stunting, and delaying the introduction of complementary feeding increased the odds of severe stunting. Child minimum dietary standards were rarely achieved. It is vital to develop setting- and age-specific interventions to improve child-feeding practices.