Provides facts on current concepts in pediatric nutrition with regard to the pathophysiology of disease and developing nutritional health care plans. Discusses controversies in childhood nutrition; cholesterol screening and dietary intervention in childhood for prevention of adult onset cardiovascular disease; breastfeeding; optimal nutrition in low birth weight infants; infant nutrition during the first two years; iron deficiency; food allergy and atopic disease; nutrition therapy of inborn errors of metabolism; the pathology of childhood obesity; nutrition for special needs; diarrhea and malnutrition; nutritional complications of HIV infection; nutrition and growth; trace elements in parenteral nutrition; the home in parenteral nutrition; prenatal and genetic magnesium deficiency in cardiomyopathy; nonnutritive dietary supplements in pediatrics; the ecology of poverty, undernutrition, and learning failure; and nutrition education in medical schools and residency training. For students, clinicians, and professors involved in children's nutrition, as well as nutritionists, dietitians, and others interested in the field.