title: Health and fitness series--6. Child health: how nutrition affects growth.
abstract: Dr Margaret Lawson summarises the relationship between childhood growth and nutrition, and the effect of early nutrition on health in later life. She explains why children should be encouraged to eat a varied diet that includes foods from each of the four main food groups. The need to monitor children's growth is discussed, as are some of the nutritional pitfalls that may prevent children achieving their optimum growth and health.
authors.affiliation: Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health, London.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lawson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D053198:Child Nutrition Sciences / Q000193:education / Q000502:physiology*; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D009752:Nutritional Status; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education; D012727:Sex Characteristics