Infant, Child and Adolescent Nutrition: A Practical Guide, Second Edition, is an evidence-based, practical guide introducing readers to the theory behind optimal child nutrition. Containing practical advice on how to put that theory into practice, this new edition facilitates learning through case studies, key points, and learning activities. Divided into seven sections, chapters cover prenatal nutrition and nutrition throughout childhood from preterm babies to adolescents up to the age of 18.

Sections throughout focus on topics ranging from nutrient requirements, balanced eating patterns and common problems to cultural influences on food choices and guidelines on assessing growth and dietary intakes. Prevention and management of obesity and allergies are covered in separate chapters. The first 1000 days are given particular consideration with chapters on diets for preconception, pregnancy, milk feeding and complementary feeding during infancy. The chapter on nutritional treatments covers common conditions such as diabetes and Crohn’s disease, as well as more intricate feeding regimes and tube feeding required for children with rarer diseases and syndromes.

New in this second edition are:

· Changes in in food allergy prevention and oral immunotherapy treatments.

· Causes and management strategies to deal with fussy and selective eating in toddlers.

· The importance of iodine in diets before and during pregnancy to improve children’s cognitive abilities.

· Updated recommendations on vitamin D supplementation.

This second edition is an essential reading for students taking courses in nutrition and paediatric healthcare. It serves as a useful reference for individuals responsible for the nutritional intakes of children in primary care and community settings including early years practitioners, midwives, health visitors, school nurses and governors, social workers, paediatricians and general practitioners.

Contents

۱ Nutritional requirements
۲ Principles of a balanced nutritious diet for children over 1 year
۳ Social and cultural influences on food choices
۴ Measuring and assessing growth
۵ Assessing nutritional intake
۶ Preconception and fertility
۷ Pregnancy
۸ Milk feeding
۹ Complementary feeding
۱۰ Common feeding problems in infancy
۱۱ Preterm infants
۱۲ Preschool children 1–۴ years
۱۳ Common nutritional problems in preschool children
۱۴ Feeding preschool children in childcare settings
۱۵ Primary school-age children 5–۱۱ years
۱۶ Nutrition for adolescents
۱۷ Food hypersensitivity – food allergies and intolerances
۱۸ Childhood obesity
۱۹ Nutrition for children with chronic diseases and syndromes