Beschreibung:
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
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.
This book covers wellness in infants through the prevention and treatment of infectious disease, malnutrition and developmental and genetic abnormalities. Special emphasis is provided for clinicians treating undernourished children in developing countries.
Useful resource for physicians treating and preventing nutritional problems in infants
Infant nutrition and lifelong health.- Nutrition in Infants: Risks and Management.- Nutritional concerns of Aboriginal infants and children in remote and northern Canadian communities: Problems and therapies.- Breastfeeding and infant health in the Indian subcontinent: Problems and solutions.- Infant Nutrition in the Middle East.- Complementary Local Foods For Infants In Developing Countries.- Introduction of Complementary Foods to Infants and Ultimate Risk of Allergies.- The Role of Nutrition in Health and Disease in Premature Infants: Current Knowledge Gaps and Defining the Research Agenda.- Intestinal development and permeability: Role in nutrition of preterm infants.- Colostrum as a therapeutic for premature infants.- Protein nutrition for the preterm infant.- Parenteral Nutrition of Preterm Infants Methods to improve safety and prevent disease.- Early parenteral nutrition and subsequent growth of premature infants.- Human milk oligosaccharides: Role in infant health.- The impact of infant feeding on later metabolic health.- Methods to improve use of breast feeding.- Early Breastfeeding cessation in infants: Causes and solutions.- Salt, diet and metabolic factors affecting breastfeeding.- Early Childhood Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and its Effects on Allergy and Asthma.- Smoking Mothers and Breastfeeding.- Breast milk and risk of breast cancer.- Storage of Human Breast Milk.- Consequences of micronutrient deficiency and interventions to improve micronutrient status.- Maternal nutritional supplement: Effects on Infants.- Food Fortification.- Amino acid needs and metabolism in preterm and term infants.- Perinatal taurine exposure on infants.- Micronutrient deficiencies and treatment of infant skin problems.- Magnesium and infant health.- Vitamin K deficiency and its prevention and treatment in infants.- The role of vitamin A in health of infants and vitamin A status assessment methods.
