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Public health issues in infant and child nutrition / editors, Robert E. Black, Kim Fleischer Michaelsen.

Other author/creatorBlack, Robert E.
Other author/creatorMichaelsen, Kim Fleischer.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoPhiladelphia, PA : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ©2002.
Descriptionxvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Subject(s)
Series Nestlé Nutrition workshop series ; v. 48. Paediatric Programme
Nestlé Nutrition workshop series v. 48. ^A13653
Contents Burden of disease caused by childhood undernutrition -- Childhood infectious diseases and their contribution to undernutrition -- Nutritional influences on child development: cross-national perspectives -- Preventing vitamin A deficiency: translating science to action -- Consequences of zinc deficiency on human health and alternatives for programmatic intervention -- Iron and infectious disease: a public health problem? -- Breast feeding and HIV transmission -- Breast feeding babies: is the longer the better? -- Promotion of Breast Feeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT): a cluster-randomized trial in the republic of Belarus -- Success of intervention programs to promote complementary feeding -- Microbial contamination of weaning food and water -- Options for achieving adequate intake from home-prepared complementary foods in low income countries -- Early exposures and later health and development -- Does an excessive protein intake early in life cause health problems such as obesity later in life? -- Validating the fetal origins hypothesis: an epidemiologic challenge -- Potential for metabolic imprinting by nutritional perturbation of epigenetic gene regulation -- Concluding discussion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001050414
ISBN0781737516

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