Parents and caregivers receive so many different messages about children, weight, and food, and it can be difficult and confusing to navigate for families and health care providers alike. What is sound advice? What is dangerous? How can health care providers help families and their children to develop and sustain positive feeding and eating relationships? These topics are discussed in the next two issues of the Nutrition Focus Newsletter:
- Part 1 – Children and Weight: Providing Help, Preventing Harm – Nutrition Assessment
- Part 2 – Children and Weight: Providing Help, Preventing Harm – Nutrition Intervention
This issue of Nutrition Focus highlights the essential components of a comprehensive nutrition assessment with consideration of feeding and eating dynamics between parent and child. This newsletter will:
- Review various growth patterns in children
- Discuss causes of growth problems in children
- Review the division of responsibility in feeding
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Children and Weight: Providing Help, Preventing Harm Part 1 – Nutrition Assessment
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