Pediatric Nutrition Handbook

Updated and greatly expanded for the 21st century, this useful reference provides practicing clinicians with evidence-based guidance on the full spectrum of childhood nutrition issues- a state-of-the-art manual that clinicians will turn to often. The 5th edition reflects new scientific insights into how nutrition influences and directs growth and development from infancy through adolescents, as well as immediate and long-term health. Included are sections on infant, child, and adolescent feeding; micronutrients and macronutrients; nutrition delivery; nutrition in illness; and nutrition and public health.