Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- 1: General Concepts -- 2: Clinical Assessment of Nutritional Status -- 3: Laboratory Assessment of Nutritional Status -- 4: Body Composition and Growth -- 5: Macronutrient Requirements for Growth: Carbohydrates -- 6: Macronutrient Requirement for Growth: Protein/Amino Acid -- 7: Macronutrient Requirements for Growth: Fats & Fatty Acids -- 8: Trace Elements -- 9: Iron -- 10: Vitamins -- 11: Dietary Reference Intakes -- 12: International Nutrition -- 13: Protein-Energy Malnutrition: Pathophysiology, Clinical Consequences, and Treatment -- 14: Childhood Malnutrition: Prevention & Control at the National Level -- 15: Community Nutrition and Its Impact on Children: Industrialized Countries -- 16: Nutritional Epidemiology -- 17: Food Safety -- 18: Drug Therapy and Role of Nutrition -- 19: Nutrition and Gene Expression -- 20: Nutrition and the Humoral Regulation of Growth -- 21: Gastrointestinal Development: Implications for Infant Feeding -- 22: Immunophysiology and Nutrition of the Gut -- 23: Malnutrition and Host Defense -- 24: Neuropsychological Development -- 25: Nutrition and the Behavior of Children -- 26: Maternal Nutrition and Pregnancy Outcome -- 27: Human Growth and Disease in Later Life -- 28: Development of the Fetus: Carbohydrate & Lipid Metabolism -- 29: Amino Acid Nutrition in Utero: Placental Function & Metabolism -- 30: Human Milk: Nutritional Properties -- 31: Protective Properties of Human Milk -- 32: Approach to Breast-feeding -- 33: The Low-Birth-Weight Infant: Inpatient Care -- 34: Nutritional Management of Preterm Infants Postdischarge -- 35: The Term Infant -- 36: Complementary Feeding -- 37: Energy Metabolism and Requirements in Health & Disease -- 38: Energy and Substrate Regulation in Obesity -- 39: Evaluation and Management of Obesity -- 40: Complications of Obesity: Metabolic Syndrome.

41: Popular Diets for Obesity -- 42: Feeding Difficulties -- 43: Failure to Thrive: Malnutrition in the Pediatric Outpatient Setting -- 44: Nutritional Assessment of the Hospitalized Patient -- 45: Developmental Disabilities -- 46.1: Inborn Errors of Fasting Adaptation: Glycogen Storage Disease -- 46.2: Inborn Errors of Metabolism and the Liver -- 47: Persistent Renal Disease -- 48: Inflammatory Bowel Disease -- 49: Pediatric HIV Infection -- 50: Celiac Disease -- 51: Food Allergies -- 52: Exocrine Pancreatic Disease Including Cystic Fibrosis -- 53: Acute and Chronic Liver Disease -- 54: Cancer Prevention -- 55: Cancer Treatment -- 56: Diabetes Mellitus -- 57: Diarrheal Diseases -- 58: Intestinal Failure, Short Bowel Syndrome, and Intestinal Transplantation -- 59: The Critically Ill Child -- 60: Hyperlipidemia and Cardiovascular Disease Risk -- 61: Carbohydrate Absorption and Malabsorption -- 62: Nutritional Anemias -- 63: Function and Nature of the Components in the Oral Cavity -- 64: Adolescence: Health and Disordered Eating -- 65: The Adolescent Athlete: Performance-Enhancing Drugs & Dietary Supplements -- 66: Adolescence: Bone Disease -- 67: Standard and Specialized Enteral Formulas -- 68: Enteral Nutrition -- 69: Parenteral Nutrition -- 70: Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals -- 71: Special Diets -- Appendix I: Nutritional Assessment -- Appendix II: Nutritional Requirements -- Appendix III: Enteral Products -- Index.