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Second edition. Edited by Patti J. Thureen and William W. Hay, Jr. 688 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. $300. ISBN 978-0-521-82455-2.

Patti Thureen and William Hay have assembled an outstanding group of experts in neonatal nutrition, and with these contributors they have put together an excellent review of the current state of knowledge regarding fetal and neonatal nutrition. After a brief review of what is known about the influence of maternal nutrition on the embryo, the book offers a wonderful discussion of the regulation and acquisition of nutrients by the fetus. The nutrition management of the preterm infant is also discussed in great detail. Energy needs, thermal regulation, composition of breast milk, and gut development are a few of the topics . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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