title: [An update on pediatric nutrition for general physicians].
abstract: This supplement has the purpose of providing current information on pediatric nutrition addressed to health professionals attending the pediatric population. This is attained through discussing some relevant topics such as: Importance of feeding during the first year of life; Benefits of probiotics in infancy; Malnutrition syndrome; Common gastrointestinal problems, and Food allergy in infancy. In each of these subjects some specific issues are developed to: a) promote a healthy nutritional status through an adequate feeding; b) prevent the presence of diseases related to nutrition as protein energy malnutrition, specific nutritional deficiencies; overweight and obesity, and the effects of potentially harmful diets, and c) propose an approach of management of some common diseases related to food and nutrition.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Nutrición Humana, Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG), Guadalajara, Jal. evgaribay@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Edgar Manuel
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Vásquez Garibay
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D058005:General Practitioners; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant