• Provides practicing clinicians with evidence-based guidance on the full spectrum of childhood nutrition issues.
• New sections on nutrition support of patients with liver disease and inflammatory bowel disease, the newly developed growth standards from the World Health Organization for healthy breastfed infants and young children. and appendices that display and discuss the newest food guide pyramids, now called MyPyramid.
• Section on cultural implications of feeding children.
• Includes how children develop preferences for specific tastes, foods, and meal patterns; how to best support those with chronic illness; and enteral and parenteral nutrition support for those who cannot eat.
• Introductory section on "Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Health: An Office-Based Approach," speaks to office-based practices that can be directed toward identifying overweight as well as other nutritional disorders.
• In-depth discussions of nutrition assessment, obesity, food labeling, and other issues that affect our understanding and treatment of overweight as well as other nutritional disorders.

Additionally, you''ll get valuable added features, available only from Skyscape:

• Built-in Medical Calculators: Provide instant access from within clinical topics to the Body Mass Index
• Full Images: Vivid images that aid in diagnostic workup.
• Table Viewer: All the richness of extensive tables, easily viewable on the compact screen of your mobile device.

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