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Weaning
"... leading experts evaluate current weaning practices in both industrialized and developing countries. The book presents a balanced, comprehensive view of all aspects of weaning, considering not only the problems involved in interrupting breast feeding but also the ramifications of introducing foods other than milk to the infant diet. Drawing on our current knowledge of immunology and renal and gastrointestinal physiology, the contributors establish criteria for determining when an infant is mature enough to tolerate semisolid foods without adverse mechanical, metabolic, or immunologic effects. The adequacy of weaning foods and supplements for meeting the energy requirements and other nutr...
Small Matters
An innovative study of the struggle for healthy children in early twentieth-century Canada.
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Infant Nutrition
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Infant and Child Nutrition Worldwide
This volume provides a contemporary and historical overview of infant nutrition in Europe, North America, and the Third World. It emphasizes the important role that good nutrition, appropriate health care, and a caring environment play in promoting healthy physical and social growth in children. Issues covered include breast feeding, maternal undernutrition and reproductive performance, weaning, and the social and pyschological factors of breast feeding. The book will serve as an excellent guide for nutritionists, pediatricians, health professionals and others involved in child welfare worldwide.
The New Pediatrics
When antibiotics became readily available in the 1950s, the danger of life-threatening infectious childhood diseases virtually disappeared. In that era, pediatricians broadened the core professional task of their specialty--the prevention and treatment of such diseases--to incorporate the behavioral and psychosocial problems of children and adolescents. Pediatricians themselves began to refer to this changing emphasis as the "new pediatrics," and to see the trend as a natural progression of their specialty into new areas of care. At the same time there arose widespread disaffection among practicing general pediatricians, defection to other areas of practice, and a decline in the popularity o...
Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity
Celiac disease is a systemic autoimmune process and appears in genetically predisposed individuals, with a well-known cause, consisting in a permanent intolerance to gluten, a protein contained in the flour of wheat, rye, barley and oats. Worldwide celiac disease affects to 1% of the Caucasian and there is recent evidence that the disease is increasing in USA and Finland among other regions in the world. It is considered to be the most prevalent disease with a genetic predisposition. The clinical forms of presentation are varied. The classical form consisting of diarrhea, anemia and failure to thrive is still common in children, but in the adult patients the symptoms resemble the irritable b...
