Nutrition in Infancy

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.

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

From the book reviews:

"This book covers normal nutrition in infants from a global perspective with a broad overview of world issues. ... The book uses tables throughout, including WHO guidelines and RDAs of nutrients. This is an interesting volume for researchers and specialists interested in the most up-to-date research, and nutrition professionals." (Amy Hess-Fischl, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2013)

From the book reviews:"This book covers normal nutrition in infants from a global perspective with a broad overview of world issues. ... The book uses tables throughout, including WHO guidelines and RDAs of nutrients. This is an interesting volume for researchers and specialists interested in the most up-to-date research, and nutrition professionals." (Amy Hess-Fischl, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2013)