Nutrition and Growth

The science of nutrition has advanced beyond expectation since Antoine La voisier as early as the 18th century showed that oxygen was necessary to change nutrients in foods to compounds which would become a part of the human body. He was also the first to measure metabolism and to show that oxidation within the body produces heat and energy. In the two hundred years that have elapsed, the essentiality of nitrogen-containing nutrients and of proteins for growth and maintenance of tissue has been established; the ne cessity for carbohydrates and certain types of fat for health has been docu mented; vitamins necessary to prevent deficiency diseases have been identified and isolated; and the requirement of many mineral elements for health has been demonstrated. Further investigations have defined the role of these nutrients in metabolic processes and quantitated their requirements at various stages of development. Additional studies have involved their use in the possible prevention of, and therapy for, disease conditions.

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The science of nutrition has advanced beyond expectation since Antoine La­ voisier as early as the 18th century showed that oxygen was necessary to change nutrients in foods to compounds which would become a part of the human body. He was also the first to measure metabolism and to show that oxidation within the body produces heat and energy. In the two hundred years that have elapsed, the essentiality of nitrogen-containing nutrients and of proteins for growth and maintenance of tissue has been established; the ne­ cessity for carbohydrates and certain types of fat for health has been docu­ mented; vitamins necessary to prevent deficiency diseases have been identified and isolated; and the requirement of many mineral elements for health has been demonstrated. Further investigations have defined the role of these nutrients in metabolic processes and quantitated their requirements at various stages of development. Additional studies have involved their use in the possible prevention of, and therapy for, disease conditions.

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Introduction: Perspectives and Needs.- I ? Influences on Growth.- 1 Nutrient Needs.- 2 Genetic and Nutritional Interactions.- 3 Nondietary Factors and Nutrition.- 4 Metabolic Anomalies, Nutrition, and Growth.- II ? Ages of Man (Perspectives).- 5 Maternofetal Nutrition.- 6 The Newborn.- 7 The Young Child: Normal.- 8 The Young Child: Failure to Thrive.- 9 The Young Child: Protein-Energy Malnutrition.- 10 The Young Child: Obesity.- 11 The Adolescent.- 12 The Adult.- III ? Growth Monitoring and Nutritional Assessment.- 13 Optimal Nutritional Assessment.- 14 Reference Data.- 15 Clinic Assessment.- 16 Anthropometric Field Methods: General.- 17 Anthropometric Field Methods: Criteria for Selection.- 18 Anthropometric Field Methods: Simplified Methods.- 19 Presentation of Data.- 20 Nutrition Surveillance in Developed Countries: The United States Experience.- 21 Nutrition Surveillance in Developing Countries, with Special Reference to Ethiopia.