Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Preface; Chapter 1: Clinical nutritional assessment; Publisher Summary; Assessing nutritional status: What does the diet tell us; Nutritional assessment; Does nutrition matter?; Chapter 2: Nutrition in pregnancy and its effects on the fetus; Publisher Summary; Vitamin deficiencies; Mineral deficiencies; Less clear-cut relationships between maternal and fetal nutrition; Fetal malnutrition: 'Placental insufficiency'; Chapter 3: Breast feeding; Publisher Summary; Physiology of breast feeding; Practical problems with breast feeding

Establishing breast feedingWhy breast feed?; Disadvantages of breast feeding; Breast-milk banking; Growth of breast-fed infants; Prolonged breast feeding; Improving breast-feeding 'statistics1; Chapter 4: Formula feeding; Publisher Summary; Modern, modified, cows' milk formulas; Making up the formula; How much is fed?; International Code of Marketing Breast-Milk Substitutes; Cows' milk; Soya based formulas; 'Follow-on' formulas; Chapter 5: Low-birthweight infants; Publisher Summary; Feeding LBW infants; Nutritional problems in LBW infants; Catch-up growth in LBW infants; Chapter 6: Weaning

Publisher SummaryWhen?; Why?; How?; Weaning in developing countries; Chapter 7: Failure to thrive; Publisher Summary; The clinical diagnosis of failure to thrive; Failure to thrive in specific conditions; Chapter 8: Protein-energy malnutrition; Publisher Summary; Classification of PEM; QUAC stick; Malnutrition and the resistance to infection; Marasmus; Management of severe PEM; Nutrition Rehabilitation Units; Prevention of severe PEM; Weaning education; The long-term effects of PEM; Chapter 9: Mineral deficiencies; Publisher Summary; Iron; Zinc; Copper; Selenium; Chromium; Iodine; Fluorine

Other trace elementsChapter 10: Vitamin deficiencies; Publisher Summary; Vitamin A deficiency; B vitamin deficiencies; Vitamin C deficiency (scurvy); Vitamin D deficiency: nutritional rickets; Vitamin E deficiency; Vitamin K deficiency; Chapter 11: Problems of vegetarian and unusual diets; Publisher Summary; Vegetarian diets; Immigrant groups at risk of nutritional deficiency in Britain; Megavitamins and other eccentric diets; Chapter 12: Nutrition and the teeth; Publisher Summary; Maternal nutrition and the teeth; Postnatal problems affecting the teeth; Fluoride

Vitamin deficiencies and the teethChapter 13: Inborn errors of metabolism; Publisher Summary; Conditions that can be managed by elimination of a non-essential nutrient; Conditions where partial elimination of an essential nutrient is necessary for management; Conditions where enzymatic defects are sensitive to co-factor or other nutrient supplementation; Conditions where management depends on restricting major nutrients Protein -- defects of the urea cycle; Chapter 14: Intolerant reactions to food; Publisher Summary; Psychogenic responses; Allergic responses; Elimination diets; Food additives