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The new sixth edition of this comprehensive manual on pediatric nutrition has been expanded considerably to reflect new scientific insights. Covering how nutrients influence and direct growth and development, as well as immediate and long-term health, from birth through adolescence, this is a valuable desk reference.This evidence-based manual reflects the current policies and practices recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Nutrition.The chapters cover: Cultural considerations in feeding children; Nutritional support for children who are neurologically impaired; Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa; Nutrition for children with sickle cell disease; Nutritional management of children with renal disease; Gastrointestinal disease and cardiac disease; and, Nutrition in cystic fibrosis; Food safety: pesticides, industrial chemicals, toxins, food additives, and more. It includes greatly expanded appendices of more than 50 tables including dietary allowances, energy requirements, composition of human milk and infant formulas, food exchanges, and more. It also includes more than 20 growth charts including charts for very low, and low birth weight infants, full-term infants, children and adolescents; and down syndrome growth charts.

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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. Dr. 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. Dr. 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 Prevention for young Children, member of the Board of Directors for the David Ortiz Childrens' Fund, the European Biomedical Research Institute Salerno (EBRIS), the ILSI Research Foundation, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF New England Regional Board, the Massachusetts General Hospital Physician Organization and Chair of the Boards for Project Bread and the Global Child Nutrition Foundation. He was the Chair of the NIH/NICHD Workshop Planning Committee for the Dietary Guidelines: Birth to 24 Months. Dr. Kleinman is a member of the External Advisory Board (EAB) for the Obesity Research Center at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kleinman served as Chair of the Committee on Nutrition for the American Academy of Pediatrics and is the editor of the 4th - 8th editions of the Academy's textbook, Pediatric Nutrition. He also served as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief for Current Pediatrics Reports.

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