Product Description

arly nutrition is critical to the health and development of infants as nutritional care may influence disease prognosis, clinical course, hospitalisation and propensity for disease in adulthood. Fast Facts: Infant Nutrition is a practical, evidence-based guide for general physicians, nurses, health visitors and all healthcare professionals dealing with infants and their parents. The authors, both experts of international standing, offer sound management advice and protocols in a clear and accessible way supported by numerous illustrations and tables. Covers the correct nutrition of healthy infants and the nutritional management of disease Includes health and safety aspects of infant nutrition Offers a ground-breaking, practical approach to the management of feeding problems Reviews the emerging results of trials designed to explore the effects of early nutrition on long-term health and development Contents Physiology; Nutritional requirements; Growth; Breastfeeding; Infant formulas and other milks; Other fluids in infant feeding; Transition to solid foods; Food safety and general health issues; A practical approach to feeding problems; Future trends.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1039905 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 108 pages

About the Author
Alan Lucas, Medical Research Council Professor, University College Professor of Paediatric Nutrition, Director of Childhood Nutrition Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Institute of Child Health, London, UK Stanley Zlotkin, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Nutritional Sciences and Research Fellow, Senior Scientist, Program in Metabolism Research Institute, Head, Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada