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Bexar County Community Health Collaborative. 2002. Healthy vending guidelines. San Antonio, TX: Bexar County Community Health Collaborative, 8 pp.

Annotation: These guidelines rank vending-machine items (snacks and beverages) as "healthiest, " "healthier, " or "excluded." It describes the criteria and rationale used in the ranking. It also offers guidelines for how to get started with the "Fit City Snack Center Initiative, " a method for making vending machine offerings healthier. The document includes a reference list. The guidelines are part of the Fit City/Fit Schools campaign in San Antonio, Texas.

Keywords: Food composition, Guidelines, Snacks

Hamosh M, Goldman AS, eds. 1986. Human lactation 2: Maternal and environmental factors. New York, NY: Plenum Press, 657 pp.

Annotation: These proceedings contain papers and poster presentations from the International Workshop on Maternal-Environmental Factors in Human Lactation, held in Oaxaca, Mexico, January 15-19, 1986. The workshop covered these topics: (1) ethnic and cultural effects on lactation; (2) the effect of the duration of pregnancy and lactation on the composition of a mother's milk; (3) lactation performance; (4) the effect of maternal nutrition on lactation; (5) drugs and toxins in human milk; and (6) host defense factors in human milk.

Keywords: Antibodies, Breastfeeding, Conference proceedings, Cultural factors, Drugs, Environmental influences, Ethnic factors, Food composition, Infant nutrition, Lactation, Maternal health, Maternal nutrition

American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Nutrition. 1962-. Collected reprints. Evanston, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Nutrition, irregular.

Annotation: This collection of reprints from the journal, Pediatrics, discusses ethics and etiquette in advertising, water requirement in relation to Osmolar load as it applies to infant feeding, conduct of clinical trials of substances proposed for the nutrition of infants and children, feeding of solid foods to infants, appraisal of the use of vitamins B 1 and B 12 as supplements promoted for the stimulation of growth and appetite in children, proteolytic enzymes in milk in relation to infant feeding, residues and additives in foods, estrogenic and androgenic agents in meats and poultry, trace elements in infant nutrition, composition of milks, vitamin K compounds and water-soluable analogues, human body composition, infantile scurvy and nutritional rickets in the United States, and selected references on feeding and nutrition.

Keywords: Advertising, Body composition, Food additives, Infant feeding, Infant nutrition, Milk, Pediatrics, Rickets, Vitamin B 12, Vitamin deficiencies

Toverud KU, Stearns G, Macy IG. 1950. Maternal nutrition and child health: An interpretative review. Washington, DC: National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 174 pp. (Bulletin of the National Research Council; no. 123)

Annotation: This report focuses on maternal nutrition and child health. Topics covered include maternal and infant mortality, specific nutritional factors in maternal and infant health (energy value and proximate composition, composition of milk, calcifying processes, vitamin D, vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, iron, vitamin K, vitamin E, iodine), and prematernal, prenatal, and postnatal care. Statistical information is presented in figures and tables throughout the report. The report concludes with a bibliography.

Keywords: Child health, Folic acid, Food composition, Infant health, Infant mortality, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Maternal nutrition, Minerals, Nutritional requirements, Postnatal care, Prenatal care, Vitamins
   

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