Tomy J. Gutiérrez - Food Science, Technology and Nutrition for Babies and Children

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The crucial role of good food and nutrition especially for babies and children is well known. However, this is not only linked to food quality and safety and metabolic processes within individuals, but also other factors such as access to drinking water, available food, feeding environments, food security, parental feeding, and stress-feeding conditions, among others, influence the good development and growth at the physiological and mental level of infants, which ultimately determine the performance of these individuals in adult life. In this regard, international organizations such as the United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund (UNICEF) make significant efforts to address and give suggestions and guidelines in this area to the governments of the world. The UNICEF and many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) every day warn about the importance and costs in public health of nations by not adequately addressing the problems that are arising because of our current lifestyle and its impact on babies and children. This being independent of the levels of wealth of each country.

This book is mainly focused on the food science for babies and children and offers alternatives from the point of view of food technology for babies and children with special diet regimes associated with metabolic or enzymatic diseases such as allergy to casein, phenylalanine (phenylketonuria or commonly known as PKU), and gluten (celiac disease) or lactose intolerance. Finally, this book addresses some nutritional aspects of babies and children in terms of childhood obesity, childs appetite, and parental feeding.