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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/4470| Title: | Nutrition in childhood |
| Authors: | Bartolo, Marie Claire |
| Keywords: | Children -- Nutrition Breastfeeding Child development |
| Issue Date: | 2014-05 |
| Publisher: | Malta College of Family Doctors |
| Citation: | Malta College of Family Doctors. 2014, Vol.3(1), p. 12-20 |
| Abstract: | Childhood is the stage in a human’s life associated with growth and development. Growth proceeds rapidly in early life, slows down in middle childhood and accelerates at puberty before linear growth ceases. With increasing age there is also physical and psychomotor maturation, which influences activity, body composition, feeding skills and food choices (Geissler, 2011). Adequate nutrition is essential for growth, health and development of children. Poor nutrition increases the risk of illness, and is responsible directly or indirectly for one third of the estimated 9.5 million deaths that occurred in 2006 in children less than 5 years of age. Inappropriate nutrition can also lead to childhood obesity. (WHO, 2009a). |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/4470 |
| Appears in Collections: | JMCFD, Volume 3, Issue 1 JMCFD, Volume 3, Issue 1 |
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