Nutrition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Nutrition and Metabolic Development in Mammals

   • Peter Hahn

   Pages 1-39

3. Malnutrition and Mental Development

   • Myron Winick

   Pages 41-59

4. Nutrition and Cellular Growth

   • S. Jaime Rozovski, Myron Winick

   Pages 61-102

5. Nutrition and Brain Neurotransmitters

   • Edith Liwszyc Cohen, Richard Jay Wurtman

   Pages 103-132

6. Nutrition and Pregnancy

   • Pedro Rosso, Carolyn Cramoy

   Pages 133-228

7. Early Infant Nutrition: Breast Feeding

   • Derrick B. Jelliffe, E. F. Patrice Jelliffe

   Pages 229-259

8. Early Infant Nutrition: Bottle Feeding

   • Lewis A. Barness

   Pages 261-271

9. Malnutrition, Learning and Animal Models of Cognition

   • David A. Levitsky, Larry Goldberger, Thomas F. Massaro

   Pages 273-290

10. Nutrition and Mental Development in Children

    • Patricia L. Engle, Marc Irwin, Robert E. Klein, Charles Yarbrough, John W. Townsend

    Pages 291-306

11. Malnutrition and Infection

    • Gerald T. Keusch, Michael Katz

    Pages 307-332

12. Nutrition in Dental Development and Disease

    • Juan M. Navia

    Pages 333-362

13. Pediatric Nutrition: Potential Relationship to the Development of Atherosclerosis

    • Charles J. Glueck, Reginald C. Tsang

    Pages 363-381

14. Iron Deficiency: Behavior and Brain Biochemistry

    • Rudolph L. Leibel, Daryl B. Greenfield, Ernesto Pollitt

    Pages 383-439

15. Inborn Errors of Metabolism

    • Donough O’Brien

    Pages 441-446

16. Nutritional In-Hospital Management of Chronic Diarrhea in Children

    • Giorgio Solimano, Sally A. Lederman

    Pages 447-462

17. Back Matter

    Pages 463-496

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The science of nutrition has advanced beyond expectation since Antoine La­ voisier as early as the 18th century showed that oxygen was necessary to change nutrients in foods to compounds which would become a part of the human body. He was also the first to measure metabolism and to show that oxidation within the body produces heat and energy. In the two hundred years that have elapsed, the essentiality of nitrogen-containing nutrients and of proteins for growth and maintenance of tissue has been established; the ne­ cessity for carbohydrates and certain types of fat for health has been docu­ mented; vitamins necessary to prevent deficiency diseases have been identified and isolated; and the requirement of many mineral elements for health has been demonstrated. Further investigations have defined the role of these nutrients in metabolic processes and quantitated their requirements at various stages of development. Additional studies have involved their use in the possible prevention of, and therapy for, disease conditions.

• Vitamin
• fat
• food
• health
• nutrition
• prevention
• proteins

• Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA

  Myron Winick

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