Textbook of Paediatric NutritionDonald Stewart McLaren, David Burman Abstract: Recent advances in knowledge and medical practice as related to pediatric nutrition are reviewed for pediatricians, nutritionists, and child health care professionals. Major topics are: nutrition in growth and development; nutritional disorders; nutritional aspects of other diseases; and pediatric nutrition in the community. Individual topics under each of the main categories were prepared by distinguished experts from several countries, with an extensive bibliography covering the modern concepts of each topic. Specifics include: nutrition of various groups, maternal, fetal, early childhood, school children, adolescents, nutritional assessment; protein energy malnutrition; vitamin and mineral deficiencies and toxicity; obesity; parenteral nutrition; metabolic disorders (carbohydrate; lipid; amino acid); systemic disease; social factors; and malnutrition in developing nations. (wz). |
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C T Gürson and G Saner | 3 |
Nutrition in growth and development 2 Maternal nutrition and fetal growth J Metcoff | 18 |
D Burman | 39 |
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