Child Nutrition

Contents: Preface. 1. Global strategy for child feeding. 2. Implementation of child feeding strategy. 3. Importance of breastfeeding. 4. Effects of breastfeeding. 5. Undernutrition in India. 6. Management of malnutrition. 7. Community based nutrition programmes. 8. Effectiveness of community-based therapeutic care. 9. Role of nutrition information systems. 10. Integrated child development services. Bibliography. Index.

"This book in the series on health and nutrition education focuses on the issue of child nutrition what it means, its relevance and its requisites. The nutritive needs of a child differ vastly from those of an adult, and in this, there is variation too from one child to another, depending upon the factors of age, heights, sex and other specified body requirements.

In this regard, it is important to also consider what makes a nutritionist different from a dietician while a nutritionist works upon ascertaining the nutritional values of different foods, a dietician translates the science of nutrition into the skill of furnishing optimal nourishment to people (diet). Deities is a profession concerned with the science and art of human nutrition case, an essential component of health sciences; and hence the treatment of diseases by the modification of the diet lies within the province of the dietician." (jacket)