from more than 70 experienced practitioners, this superb ready-reference puts today’s most current nutrition-related information at your fingertips—the latest evidence-based guidelines on feeding healthy infants and children; all-new chapters on nutrition support of patients with liver disease and inflammatory bowel disease; recent advances and developments on breastfeeding, fast foods, vegetarian diets, newborn diarrhea, food labeling, preterm infant nutrition needs, and chronic obesity; the newest food guide pyramids—now called MyPyramid; newly developed growth standards from the World Health Organization for healthy breastfed infants and young children; and more than 20 growth charts for very low and low birth weights, full-term infants, children, and adolescents.

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