BABY Infant and Toddler Nutrition and Health (with CD-ROM)

Author: Song Lianxian
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: How can young parents raise a lovable baby? Young parents must be feeling worried. This book brings you scientific insights into infant and child nutrition and physical development, nutrition and intellectual development, feeding and breastfeeding precautions, dietary needs of special infants, and common misconceptions in infant and child health care. The content is detailed and caring! This book consists of four parts. Chapter 1 primarily discusses the basic knowledge of physical and intellectual development at different stages of infants and children, as well as the basic composition and physiological functions of nutrients. Chapter 2 elaborates in three stages on the nutritional needs, basic feeding requirements, and precautions for infants and children at different stages, and recommends a large number of recipes for children at each stage. Chapter 3 explores the nutritional diseases frequently caused by improper diet in children and proposes corresponding dietary therapies and preventive methods. Chapter 4 focuses on discussing with young parents some traditional feeding views that have been scientifically proven to be incorrect based on modern nutritional concepts.