[Infant feeding today. Facts, developments, feeding ideologies (author's transl)].

Since apparently the minimum requirements of all nutritive substances necessary to life are known it is necessary to establish the optimal supply of the essential nutritive elements. For infants the best nourishment is and remains the mother's milk. Since at the end of the first month of life only 10% of infants are still breast fed, the quality and quantity of "artificial foods" are of outstanding importance. Contrary to the various claims the supply of foodstuffs in central Europe is safer than even before in spite of the almost countless number of biocides and the necessary conservation processes. New dangers for the health of the infants and children are the dietary ideologies and the mirage of "diet left to nature".