Pediatric Nutrition in Chronic Diseases and Developmental Disorders: Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment, 2nd edition, by Shirley Ekvall, PhD, FAAMD, FACN, RD, and Valli Ekvall, PhD, RD, LD, presents the current status of research on nutrition in chronic diseases and developmental disorders of children for helping to translate this research into clinical practice.

It provides information on the nutritional implications of disease states, how nutrition can affect brain development, learning and behavior, and how to improve the health status of pediatric patients through nutritional measures. The second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on sports nutrition, nutrition support, botanicals, genetics, and nutritional aspects of birth defects, and vegetarianism, as well as topics such as obesity/eating disorders, autism, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder.

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