Nutritional Needs of American Youth

Nutritional Assessment and Nutritional Needs of Refugee or Displaced Populations

Health education needs of the youth.

Weens goeie algemene gesondheid kom die adolessent dikwels nie met die gesondheidsorgstelsel in aanraking nie. Adolessente het egter baie gesondheidsvoorligtingsbehoeftes waaraan daar nie voldoen word nie. Adolessente het verskeie volwassewordingstake om te verrig en ten opsigte van hul voorligtingsbehoeftes moet die mens as geheel, asook sy omgewing, in ag geneem word. Daarom behoort voorligti...

Nutritional Needs of Low-Birth-Weight Infants

Optimal nutrition is critical in the management of the ever-increasing number of surviving small premature infants. Although the most appropriate goal of nutrition of the low-birth-weight (LBW) infant is not definitively known, achieving a postnatal growth that approximates the in utero growth of a normal fetus at the same postconception age appears to be the most logical approach at present.’ ...

Nutritional Needs of Low-Birth-Weight Infants

The basal metabolic rate of low-birth-weight infants is lower than that of full-term infants during the first week of life, but it reaches and exceeds that of the full-term infant by the second week. Daily caloric requirements reach 50 to 100 kcal/kg by the end of the first week of life and usually increase to 110 to 150 kcal/kg in subsequent active growth. A partition of the daily minimum ener...

Nutritional Needs of Low-Birth-Weight Infants

The basal metabolic rate of low-birth-weight infants is lower than that of full-term infants during the first week of life, but it reaches and exceeds that of the full-term infant by the second week. Daily caloric requirements reach 50 to 100 kcal/kg by the end of the first week of life and usually increase to 110 to 150 kcal/kg in subsequent active growth. A partition of the daily minimum ener...