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The Economics of Infant and Child Nutrition

New England Journal of Medicine, 1948
THE recent change in the world food situation from one of apparent relative adequacy to one of obvious deficit invites a brief review of the economics of providing infants and children with an adequate diet. In this connection total calories and protein appear to deserve the most consideration.
Nathan B. Talbot, C. C. Koo, Walter W. Pick, Shirley L. Wells   +3 more
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Explaining Child Nutrition in Vietnam*

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1997
UNICEF has written that widespread malnutrition in Vietnam stems not from the insufficient production of food but from problems of availability distribution and demand. The authors estimated two models of child nutrition using data from a representative and relatively large sample of Vietnamese households surveyed in 1992-93. No evidence was found of
Haughton, Dominique, Haughton, Jonathan
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Nutritional Support of the Child With Cancer

Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 1992
The purpose of this article is to outline how the disease, treatment, and psychological state of a child with cancer impact on the child's nutritional status. The methods of assessing nutritional status, including anthropometric measurements, laboratory indices, clinical observation, dietary assessment, and psychosocial evaluation, are summarized ...
M J, Hanigan, G A, Walter
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Child Nutrition in Developing Countries

Pediatric Annals, 2004
Malnutrition permeates all aspects of health, growth, cognition, motor and social development of young children in developing countries. More than 50% of deaths in these children can be attributed to malnutrition, most often in conjunction with serious infection.
Neumann, CG, Gewa, C, Bwibo, NO
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Nutrition and the life cycle: nutrition and the school child

British Journal of Nursing, 2001
This is the third in this series of articles examining nutrition and the life cycle. The first considered current thinking regarding nutrition in pregnancy (Vol 9(17): 1133's8), and the second discussed nourishing the infant, particularly in relation to weaning (Vol 9(21): 2205's16). This article considers nutrition and the older child.
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Nutritional Support of the Hospitalized Child

1983
Advances in surgery, nursing, pharmacology, and medical electronics have markedly altered the care and prognosis for children with previously fatal pediatric diseases. Many of these acutely or chronically ill infants and children are unable to consume sufficient food to meet nutritional requirements.
R J, Merritt, F R, Sinatra, G A, Smith
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Nutritional Considerations for the Child Athlete

Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, 2001
While nutritional issues are similar for all athletes irrespective of age, children have several physiological characteristics that distinguish them from adults and require specific nutritional considerations. These age- or maturation-related difefrences include: a greater need for protein intake, to support growth; a greater need for calcium intake ...
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The Role of Fat in Child Nutrition

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 1980
The wide differences in fat content among the milks produced by different mammals seem to indicate that the fat requirements of the newborn are also different. Fat accounts for over 50% of the energy content of human milk. This relatively high fat content can be necessary to meet the baby’s high energy demands during the first weeks of life, when it ...
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Nutrition of the Fetus, Infant, and Child

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1973
Interest in human nutrition has been gaining rapidly in recent years. From the youngest child and oldest man, from the earliest grade school student to the most sophisticated graduate student, from the politician to the scientist, from the pulpit and at the autopsy table, we are all being bombarded with modern suggestions, theories, and recommendations
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American Cancer Society nutrition and physical activity guideline for cancer survivors

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Colleen K Spees, David O Garcia, Larissa Nekhlyudov   +2 more
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