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Preface
From conception through to adolescence, purchase and consume. These topics are explored
nutritional intake and status affect the health and in this text to help parents, carers, caterers, advisors
wellbeing of children during their childhood and and educators manage mealtime behaviour and
on into their adult years. Myths and confusion provide suitable nutritious meals and snacks for
surrounding the topic of nutrition for children can children.
compromise the health of some children. To
combat this, evidence-based information has been Health professionals working with children,
compiled in this book to provide a comprehensive be they paediatricians, general practitioners,
guide to the theory behind nutrition from nurses, health visitors, social workers, nursery
preconception to adolescence. nurses, school nurses, practice nurses, breast
feeding counsellors, allied health professionals or
Putting the theory into practice is another dietitians, can use this text to find reliable
challenge that requires an understanding of how nutritional information to pass on to parents and
children’s feeding skills develop, how children children. It is an essential reference for them and
learn to like foods, how their attitudes to eating for students in all medical and social care
food change with age and why families and courses.
children choose the foods and drinks that they
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