editado por Jatinder Bhatia. -- New York : Marcel Dekker, 2005.

x, 379 p.; 23 cm. -- (Nutrition and disease prevention ; 2)

ISBN 0-8247-5474-3.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Contenido: Foreword -- Preface -- Periconceptional nutrition and infant outcomes -- Nutritional requirements during pregnancy and lactation -- Maternal nutrition for normal intrauterine growth -- Placenta as a nutritional unit -- Intrauterine growth restriction -- Nutritional influences on infant development -- Feeding the preterm infant -- Post-hospital-discharge nutrition for the premature infant -- Breast-feeding the term infant -- Introducing solid foods to infants -- Growth during the first year of life -- Prenatal and infant nutrition in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes: implications for diagnosis and therapy -- Adolescent nutrition and preconception during pregnancy -- Artificial hydration and nutrition in the neonate: ethical issues.