Infant Formula: Closer to the Reference

1. Ethnic Differences in Patterns of Human Growth in Stature; 2. Scientific and Practical Issues in the Development of the US Childhood Growth Reference; 3. Growth of the Breast-Fed Child; 4. Influence of Early Nutrition on Growth; 5. Protein Nutrition During Infancy: Effects on Growth and Metabolism; 6. Levels and Trends in Growth Failure in Developing Countries; 7. Recent Advances in Nutrition and Intrauterine Growth; 8. The Natural History of Growth Failure: Importance of Intrauterine and Postnatal Periods; 9. Nutritional Causes of Linear Growth Failure During Complementary Feeding; 10. Infection: How Important Are Its Effects on Child Nutrition and Growth?; 11. Low Birthweight, Postnatal Growth failure, and Mortality; 12. Psychosocial Consequences of Early Childhood Growth Retardation; 13. Growth of School-Age Children; 14. The Potential Role of Processed Complementary Food; 15. The Nutrition Transition: New Nutritional Influences on Child Growth; 16. Early Growth Retardation and Syndrome X: Conceptual and Methodological Issues Surrounding the Programming Hypothesis; 17. Obesity in Children from Developing Countries: A Public Health Problem?; 18. Improved Child Diet and Growth: Efficacy and Effectiveness Studies; 19. Concluding Discussion