Textbook of Pediatric Nutrition

This book, to my knowledge, represents the first modern pediatric textbook entirely devoted to normal nutrition, nutritional deficiency states, and clinical nutrition. Such a book is long overdue, and Dr Suskind has to be commended for successfully undertaking the task of putting one together. The book is divided into four sections (infant nutrition, nutritional deficiency states, nutritional support of the hospitalized child, and clinical nutrition) with 45 chapters. Expertise from every subspecialty is presented, and data on nutrition and growth failure in various disease states that heretofore were not easily found are made easily accessible. The chapters on nutritional assessment and application to pediatric patients provide useful tables to aid in the assessment. The pictures of how to measure midarm circumference and skin fold thickness are particularly useful. The role of nutritional assessment in the nutritional management of the patients is shown clearly in the chapters on parenteral support of