Food, nutrition and eating behavior / Joav Merrick and Sigal Israeli, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Section 1 Breastfeeding -- ch. 1 Memorable stories about mothers' experiences with breastfeeding / Adrienne Shivers -- ch. 2 Role of breastfeedingjn primary prevention of bone and joint diseases in children: Current concepts / Elias Vasiliadis -- Section 2 Nutrition and malnutrition -- ch. 3 Low-fat, no-fat, and sugar-free / Kim Bissell -- ch. 4 Nutritional status of Nigerian children witfi sickle cell anaemia / Olisamedua F. Njokanma -- ch. 5 Nutrition among Saharawi children hosted in Spain / Jose M. Soriano -- ch. 6 Sodium intake and hypertension in Canada / Howard Morrison -- ch. 7 Child malnutrition and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea / Daniel Schwekendiek -- Section 3 Diabetes mellitus -- ch. 8 Asymptomatic bacteriuria in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus / Edirin O. Yusuf -- ch. 9 The efficacy, safety and tolerability of drags used to treat painful diabetic neuropathy / Gerry Oster

Ch. 10 Low W-6/W-3 ratio dietary pattern and risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus / Shanmugam Manoharan -- ch. 11 Antidiabetic potential of the genus Cassia / Navdeep Bharti -- ch. 12 Painful diabetic neuropathy / Nabil Majid -- Section 4 Eating behaviors -- ch. 13 Friendship, media, eating behavior and physical activity in adolescents / Rinie Geenen -- ch. 14 Hyperinsulinemia and ovarian hyperandrogenemia ambng pre-pubertal and early pubertal obese girls / Amira I. Homed -- ch. 15 Selective visual attention, eye movements during social comparisons and eating disorder risk / Lisa Harding -- ch. 16 Recommendations for family interventions for eating disorders / Uri Pinus -- ch. 17 Student food decisions / Sibylle Kranz -- ch. 18 Snack consumption and adolescent urban school girls / Eucharia P.A. Onyiriuka -- Section 5 Obesity -- ch. 19 Alternative way of measuring fatness among rural children of Bengalee ethnicity / Kaushik Bose

H. 20 Insulin sensitivity and surrogates for adiposity in youth / Joanne S. Harrell -- ch. 21 Obesity and quality of life / Rinie Geenen -- Section 6 End of life -- ch. 22 Nutrients and fluids at the end of life / Donald E. Greydanus -- Section 7 Acknowledgments -- ch. 23 About the editors -- ch. 24 About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel -- ch. 25 About the book series "Health and human development" -- Section 8 Index.

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