Synopses & Reviews
Healthy eating throughout childhood can be crucial in deterring many of the diseases that occur later in adult life. Parents often have many concerns about diet and nutrition and require accurate and sensible advice from heatlh professionals. The first edition of this popular book proved a practical guide for nutritionists, nurses, midwives, and anyone dealing with dietary information in the course of their work. This new edition provides a general introduction to nutrition in childhood.It includes practical information for community heatlh workers, providing age-appropriate dietary advice for both healthy and sick children. The book discussed normal infant feeding practices, current issues on healthy eating in children and adolescents, feeding problems, food allergies, obesity, and the dietary management of children with chronic diseases. New to the second edition are sections on growth in children, feeding the premature infant, enteral tube feeding, and parenteral nutrition with particular reference to feeding methods in the community. A list of self-help groups, and further sources of information have also been included.
Review
From reviews of the first edition:
"Based on wide practical experience and combines sound knowledge of the subject with a common-sense approach and sensitivity to the needs of parents and children. It is clearly set out with a useful index, a bibliography and addresses of self-help groups. I would recommend this book to health visitors and medical students, community nurses and social workers."--Nursing Times
"This is an excellent handbook, addressing the common concerns of parents regarding their child's nutrition...Will be of benefit to all health professionals who have to deal with nutritional problems in children. It is easy to read, provides good references and a list of relevant self help groups."--Maternal and Child Health
Review
From reviews of the first edition:
"Based on wide practical experience and combines sound knowledge of the subject with a common-sense approach and sensitivity to the needs of parents and children. It is clearly set outwith a useful index, a bibliography and addresses of self-help groups. I would recommend this book to health
visitors and medical students, community nurses and social workers."--Nursing Times
"This is an excellent handbook, addressing the common concerns of parents regarding their child's nutrition...Will be of benefit to all health professionals who have to deal with nutritional problems in children. It is easy to read, provides good references and a list of relevant self help
groups."--MaternalandChild Health
Synopsis
This practical guide covers the problems of feeding and nutrition in both healthy and ill children. It gives readers state-of-the-art information on healthy eating in childhood, problems related to unusual diets, feeding problems in infants, food allergy and intolerance, the preschool child, diet and diarrhea, as well as obesity, the school child and adolescent, and conditions requiring special diets. Written by a pediatrician and a pediatric dietitian with long experience in their respective fields, the book will bring clarity to the issues examined, and provide a ready reference for health care workers who may not be well acquainted with child nutrition.
Table of Contents
'\' 1. Infant Feeding--The Present State of the Art
2. Healthy Eating to Prevent Adult Disease
3. Dietary Variants
4. Feeding Problems in Infants
5. Food Allergy and Intolerance
6. The Preschool Child
7. Diet and Diarrhea
8. Obesity
9. The School Child and Adolescent
10. Special Diets
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