The Dietetic Pocket Guide Paediatrics is designed to help dietitians and clinicians working with paediatric patients in all care settings, to complete a full dietetic assessment and diagnosis. This guide contains a wealth of relevant information, tests and criteria in 9 chapters that cover nutritional status and assessment, body composition and anthropometric measurements, energy and protein requirements, macro-and micronutrients, disease specific classifications, gastrointestinal tract, dige...

Increase in diseases transmitted from livestock to humans:

- Zoonoses as BSE, SARS, MERS, Q Fever and the spread of multi-drugs resistant bacteria were the result

- Live animal-based food markets are related to highly pathogenic influenza

- Increase in cancer is, very recently, since mid 20th century

- Oncogenic retroviruses as chicken and bovine leukemia viruses are now detected in our food chain with more refined lab methods

- Bovine leukemia virus was detected in breast cancer tissue of women

- Consumption of meat is related to colorectal can...

Do you know the feeling of being full to the brim after having a meal? Wanting to unbutton those trousers and let that belly bloat out? And do you remember the thought of regretting that you had eaten too much? Wishing you had at least avoided that extra helping or that second slice of cake? You have probably heard that the reason for our eating behaviour is related to humans' evolutionary tendency to store as much energy as possible. In a harsh environment, this made it easier to survive. Bu...

'The essential pocket guide for health practitioners working in clinical nutrition - should be a part of every nutrition tool kit.'

Liz Isenring, PhD, AdvAPD, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, Bond University Robina, Queensland, Australia

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'A gold mine of information for dietitians and all professionals who have an interest in clinical nutrition.'

André van Gossum, PhD, MD, Chairman of ESPEN, the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism

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'It is truly a 'pocket guide' ...

Increase in diseases transmitted from livestock to humans:

- Zoonoses as BSE, SARS, MERS, Q Fever and the spread of multi-drugs resistant bacteria were the result

- Live animal-based food markets are related to highly pathogenic influenza

- Increase in cancer is, very recently, since mid 20th century

- Oncogenic retroviruses as chicken and bovine leukemia viruses are now detected in our food chain with more refined lab methods

- Bovine leukemia virus was detected in breast cancer tissue of women

- Consumption of meat is related to colorectal can...