| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction. Growth and development. Energy balance -- The development of feeding behaviour : infancy. Human lactation and the structure of infant feeding. Taste and flavour sensitivity. The control of energy intake in infancy. Feeding problems in milk-fed infants. Breast-feeding, health and cognitive development -- The development of feeding behaviour: weaning onwards. Weaning and the development of independent eating skills. Food choice and neophobia. Food preferences. Feeding problems from weaning -- Born too small or born too soon. Growth before birth. The development of children born too small. The development of children born too soon -- Nutritional deficiencies. Iron deficiency. The development of iron deficient children. Protein-energy malnutrition. Secular trends in intelligence -- Nutritional aspects of some physical conditions. Phenylketonuria. Other genetic disorders. Cerebral palsy -- Failure to thrive. Criteria for failure to thrive and its epidemiology. Explanations of failure to thrive. Developmental delay and later cognitive outcomes. Other outcomes -- Adiposity and obesity. Adiposity and its correlates. The genetics of obesity. The development of adiposity. Treatment and prevention -- Adolescence and the eating disorders. Eating disorders. Body image and dieting. Genetic and other risk factors. Intergenerational aspects of eating disorders -- Some concluding thoughts |
| Summary |
A systematic account of research on the psychological aspects of nutrition in children from birth to adolescence. Robert Drewett discusses the development of eating and food intake throughout infancy and childhood and the development effects of malnutrition, including nursing and weaning in infancy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-273) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children -- Nutrition -- Psychological aspects.
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Eating disorders in children.
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Infants -- Nutrition -- Psychological aspects.
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Child Nutrition Disorders -- psychology.
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Infant Nutrition Disorders -- psychology.
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Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
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Child.
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Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
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Malnutrition -- psychology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511282451 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511284853 |
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0511285620 (electronic bk.) |
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0511286368 (electronic bk.) |
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0511290845 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket Reader) |
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0511489676 (electronic bk.) |
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1280909579 |
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9780511282454 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511284854 |
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9780511285622 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511286360 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511290848 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket Reader) |
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9780511489679 (electronic bk.) |
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9781280909573 |
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