Childhood nutrition

About this book

Provides facts on current concepts in pediatric nutrition with regard to the pathophysiology of disease and developing nutritional health care plans. Discusses controversies in childhood nutrition; cholesterol screening and dietary intervention in childhood for prevention of adult onset cardiovascular disease; breastfeeding; optimal nutrition in low birth weight infants; infant nutrition during the first two years; iron deficiency; food allergy and atopic disease; nutrition therapy of inborn errors of metabolism; the pathology of childhood obesity; nutrition for special needs; diarrhea and malnutrition; nutritional complications of HIV infection; nutrition and growth; trace elements in parenteral nutrition; the home in parenteral nutrition; prenatal and genetic magnesium deficiency in cardiomyopathy; nonnutritive dietary supplements in pediatrics; the ecology of poverty, undernutrition, and learning failure; and nutrition education in medical schools and residency training. For students, clinicians, and professors involved in children's nutrition, as well as nutritionists, dietitians, and others interested in the field.