The new eighth edition of this bestselling AAP policy manual on pediatric nutrition has been significantly updated and includes many new contributing authors.
This valuable reference covers how nutrients influence and direct growth and development, as well as immediate and long-term health, from birth through adolescence.
This evidence-based manual reflects the current policies and practices recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition.
New in the eighth edition: New chapter on Pediatric Global Nutrition Other chapters have been completely reorganized, based on new information from publications in nutritional science and new evidence based guidelines recommending changes in practice.
New policy statement on sugary drinks, and new clinical reports on food insecurity, fruit juice consumption, non-nutritive sweeteners, fish and shellfish consumption, and use of donor human milk for the preterm infant Updated growth charts for preterm infants after birth including BMI.
About the Author Ronald E.
Kleinman, MD, FAAP, is Physician in Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Kleinman's major areas of research interest include gastrointestinal immunology, nutrition support of infants and children, and nutrition and public health policy.
He is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, chapters, monographs and 4 textbooks.
Kleinman was a founder and past president of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.
He has been a member of the Medical Advisory Group on Diet and Nutrition Guidelines in Cancer for the American Cancer Society, the National Cholesterol Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a member of the National Academy of Medicine committees on Standards for School Meals and Obesity Prev.
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American Academy Of Pediatrics Pediatric nutrition, paperback/ronald e. kleinman
