Pediatricians face many questions and challenges during patients’ transition from childhood to adulthood. Chronic diseases justify long-term medical...
Nutrition during infancy and childhood is the basis of an individual’s health in later life. It plays an important role in metabolic programming...
Considerable advances have been made in science in order to understand the varied mixture of bioactive components in human milk. The 94th Nestlé...
The early child period is considered the most important developmental phase throughout the lifespan. The 95th Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop...
Hormonal dysfunction can have a major and often complex impact on all key components of the metabolic syndrome. This book comprises state-of-the-art...
The ghrelin story started more than 30 years ago with the discovery of synthetic GH secretagogues. Only in 1999 was ghrelin‚ a natural GH-releasing...
The relation between nutrition and growth in children is one of the key concerns of pediatric health that touches a multitude of specialties...
Awareness of the influence of our genetic variation to dietary response (nutrigenetics) and how nutrients may affect gene expression (nutrigenomics)...
Increased adiposity and decreased muscle mass contribute substantially to age-dependent disease and disability. In particular age-related increase in...