Overview
- Useful resource for physicians treating and preventing nutritional problems in infants
- Special emphasis is provided for clinicians treating children in developing countries
- Includes the latest developments in diagnostic procedures and nutritional support
Part of the book series: Nutrition and Health (NH)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview: Global Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Premature Infant Feeding
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Premature Infant feeding
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Breast Feeding: Growth and Health
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Keywords
- Behavioral aspects of feeding disorders
- Body mass index
- Centile curves
- Children with special needs
- Developing countries
- Dietary fiber
- Home enteral nutrition
- Iron deficiency in infants
- Magnesium and infant health
- Malnutrition in children
- Minimal enteral nutrition
- Neuronal development
- Nutrition and HIV infected infants
- Nutritional antioxidants
- Nutritional screening
- Parenteral nutrition
- Severe malnutrition in infancy and childhood
- Trace element requirements
- Vitamin supplementation
About this book
Nutrition in Infancy: Volume 1 is a very useful resource for all clinicians treating and preventing nutritional problems in infants. This volume covers a wide range of topics that support wellness in infants through the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, malnutrition, and developmental and genetic abnormalities. A variety of chapters deal with nutrients for infants with disabilities, surgery, and other special needs.
Special emphasis is provided for clinicians treating the millions of children in developing countries whose death is promoted by undernutrition or malnutrition. The next sections discuss the health benefits of supplementation and breast feeding and methods to improve use of berast feeding and it’s duration. In Nutrition in Infancy: Volume 1, all of these facets of nutrition and nutritional therapy are covered in a precise and practical way. The latest developments in diagnostic procedures and nutritional support are also included. Written by a group of international experts, this volume is an indispensable new reference for clinicians with an interest in the nutrition and health of pregnant mothers and their infants.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This book covers normal nutrition in infants from a global perspective with a broad overview of world issues. … The book uses tables throughout, including WHO guidelines and RDAs of nutrients. This is an interesting volume for researchers and specialists interested in the most up-to-date research, and nutrition professionals.” (Amy Hess-Fischl, Doody’s Book Reviews, March, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ronald Ross Watson, PhD
Arizona Health Science Center, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Publish Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
George Grimble, PhD
Centre for Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University College London, London, UK
Victor R. Preedy, PhD, BSc, DSc, FSB, FRSPH, FRCPath, FRSC
Diabetes & Nutritional Sciences Division, School of Medicine, King's College London, London, UK
Sherma Zibaldi, MD, PhD
Division of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Publish Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nutrition in Infancy
Book Subtitle: Volume 1
Editors: Ronald Ross Watson, George Grimble, Victor R. Preedy, Sherma Zibadi
Series Title: Nutrition and Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-224-7
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-223-0Published: 01 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5989-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-62703-224-7Published: 02 December 2012
Series ISSN: 2628-197X
Series E-ISSN: 2628-1961
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 467
Topics: Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition, Pediatrics, Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery, Primary Care Medicine, Internal Medicine