Mother and Child Nutrition in the Tropics and Subtropics
1. Food: its production and processing.
Systems through which man interacts with the environment to obtain food.
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2. Common Tropical Foods
The major cereals – Tubers and fruits used as staple foods – Legumes – Edible oil plants – Milk and milk products – Preparing a balanced diet from locally available foods.
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3. Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats and Oils: the building blocks of nutrition.
The Chemical Structure digestion and assimilation of macronutrients.
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4. Nutrition in Pregnancy and Growth of the Foetus.
Effects of the previous health and nutritional status of the mother- Foetal growth – Nutritional requirements of the foetus – The role of the placenta – Mechanism of placental transfer – Nutrition of the mother – Cellular growth in the foetus – Weight at birth and body composition of the foetus – Effect of supplementing maternal diet – Intervention programmes.
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5. Breast Feeding.
Human milk as a nutrient – Dangers of artificial feeding – Human milk as a protective agent – Biological mediator: a new role for breast milk – Mother infant relationship – The spacing of pregnancies – Physiology of breast feeding – Intervention Programmes.
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6. The Weaning Period.
Dangers of the weaning period – Traditional dietary practices resulting in low energy intake – The role of intercurrent infections – Longitudinal studies – Gut dynamics in malnutrition – Intervention programmes – The question of bulk in the weaning diet – Provision of health services – Part-time health workers.
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7. Protein – Energy Malnutrition.
Classification and Definition – Clinical features – Associated deficiencies – Pathophysiology – Management – Innovative approaches – Community centred approaches – Monitoring the nutrition of the community.
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8. Micronutrients I; Vitamins in Health and Disease.
Role of vitamins – Fat soluble vitamins – Water soluble vitamins – Food sources - Deficiency diseases.
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9. Nutritional Anaemia.
Prevalence – aetiological factors.
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10. Micronutrients II: Trace Elements.
Role of trace elements – Causes of deficiencies – Food sources of.
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11. Food-borne Illness.
Sources of food borne illness – Preventive approaches.
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12. Public Health Nutrition.
The need for a district inventory of nutrition intervention – Coverage – The need for integration – Three tiers in the ice berg of malnutrition – A strategy of ‘nutrition with the people’.
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13. Clinical Nutrition
Nutritional support during infective illness – nutritional support in malabsorptive syndromes – Nutritional support during chronic illness.
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