Nutrition in Infancy

Ronald Ross Watson, PhD Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Publish Health, Arizona Health Science Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Victor R. Preedy, PhD Department of Nutrition & Dietrics, King's College, London, UK George Grimble, PhD Faculty of Medical Sciences, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, UK Sherma Zibaldi, MD, PhD Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Publish Health, Division of Health Promotion Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

• Growth and Body Composition in Children with Chronic Disease.- Nutritional support in inborn errors of metabolism.- Ketogenic Diet as treatment option for infants with intractable epileptic syndrome.- Short Bowel Syndrome: Management and treatment.- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.- Nutritional support in Crohn’s disease.- Nutritional requirements and support in liver disease.- Normal and aberrant  craniofacial development and nutrition in infants.- Role of gangliosides in neurological development and the influence of dietary sources.- Dietary methods to treat acute gastroenteritis.- Celiac disease in infants: Prevention and dietary treatment.- The Nutritional aspects of intestinal failure therapy.- Hormone therapy to improve growth in infants with chronic kidney disease.- Nutrition of infants and HIV.- Undernutrition and hearing impairment.- Nutritional management of diabetes mellitus in Infants and children.- Nutritional Considerations for Infants and Children during Critical Illness and Surgery.- Parenteral nutrition in infants and children.- Home parenteral nutrition.- The role of colonic flora in infants.- Pro and prebiotics for the prevention and treatment of diseases in childhood.- Prebiotics and Probiotics on infant health and growth.- General area of lipid composition of diets to optimize growth and development of premature infants.- Dietary management of hypercholesterolemia in infants and children.- Adipose tissue, its hormones and infant development.- Role of fatty acids in the neurological development of infants.- Obesity in Infancy and Childhood: diagnosis, incidence and strategy for change.- Infant growth and adult obesity: relationship and factors affecting them.- Maternal behaviour and infant weight.