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Nutrition Focus Newsletter

Sharon Feucht, 206-685-1297

Nutrition Focus is a bimonthly newsletter that focuses on nutritional challenges of children with special health care needs and their families. The newsletter is written for health care providers and others who serve children with special health care needs. The goal of the newsletter is to increase awareness of nutrition and share useful assessment and intervention strategies within the health care community.

It is estimated that 40% of all children with special health care needs may be at risk for nutrition problems. If these problems are addressed early by qualified health professionals, the outcomes are appropriate growth, improved health status, fewer hospitalizations and cost savings in overall health care expenditures. Nutrition Focus is a vehicle for disseminating timely, evidence-based and practical information that allows health care providers to effectively address the nutritional issues of children with special health care needs.

Each article highlights a specific disorder or nutrition concern and offers practical suggestions and guidance for families and health care professionals. Sample topics include

  • Pediatric formula update
  • Intrauterine growth retardation and small for gestational age - Nutrition Management
  • Homemade blenderized tube feedings
  • Eating/feeding problems of children
  • Dietary Reference Intakes - case studies for children with special health care needs
  • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
  • Transition for adolecents with special health care needs to adult health care and nutrition services

Subscribers who are registered dietitians can also purchase a membership to the Pediatric Nutrition Consultation Online Listserve. The listserve provides evidence-based answers to posted questions using nutritionists and dietitians from CHDD and Seattle’s Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center as consultants.

A one-year subscription (six issues) is $36, and the subscription plus listserve is $56. International/Canadian subscriptions are $45 in U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. bank, and $65 with listserv. No partial-year subscriptions are accepted. Back issues are available, with pricing based on number of copies ordered. Orders must be prepaid. Our IRS number is 91-6001537.

Order Form and List of Back Issues

Or, send your name, agency or institution, address, phone number, and a check payable to the University of Washington to:

Sharon Feucht, MS, RD
Editor, Nutrition Focus
CHDD, University of Washington
BOX 357920
Seattle, WA 98195-7920

More Information

Assuring Pediatric Nutrition Care in the Community

Nutrition for Children With Special Health Care Needs in Washington State website

CHDD Outlook article


University of Washington • Center on Human Development and Disability Box 357920 • Seattle WA 98195-7920 USA • 206-543-7701 • chdd@u.washington.edu

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