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Healthy Eating Research. 2025. Healthy beverage consumption in school-age children and adolescents: Recommendations from key national health and nutrition organizations. Durham, NC: Healthy Eating Research, 154 pp. (Technical scientific report)

Annotation: This report provides information about healthy beverage consumption among school-age children and adolescents, as well as recommendations from key national health and nutrition organizations. The report introduces the issue, presents background information, and describes the methodology. Expert recommendations related to beverages recommended as part of a healthy diet, beverages to limit as part of a healthy diet, and beverages not recommended as part of a healthy diet are presented. Other considerations, research recommendations, and policy and practice implications are discussed.

Contact: Healthy Eating Research, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Duke Box 90519, Durham, NC 27708, Telephone: (800) 578-8636 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.healthyeatingresearch.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Adolescents, Beverages, Calories, Milk, Nutrition, Research, School age children, Sugar, Water

Food and Nutrition Board, Committee on the Evaluation of the Addition of Ingredients New to Infant Formula. 2004. Infant formula: Evaluating the safety of new ingredients. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 206 pp.

Annotation: This report addresses the regulatory and research issues that are critical in assessing the safety of the addition of new ingredients to infant formulas. It begins with an overview of infant formula regulations and guidelines and the rationale for the report. Chapter 2 reviews the parameters considered by the committee when defining "safety" and how to approach it from a practical, theoretical, and statistical point of view. Chapter 3 compares how biological and behavioral advantages of human milk with infant formulas and reviews how infant formulas were developed to meet the biological advantages of human milk. The remainder of the report reviews the current regulatory processes involved in evaluating infant formulas and provides recommendations for the overall process, preclinical studies, clinical studies, and in-market surveillance. The appendices include acronyms and a glossary, composition of infant formulas and human milk for feeding tern infants in the United States, the Redbook table of contents, applying the recommended approaches, and biographical sketches of committee members. References are provided at the end of each chapter.

Contact: National Academies Press, 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Keck 360, Washington, DC 20001, Telephone: (202) 334-3313 Secondary Telephone: (888) 624-8373 Fax: (202) 334-2451 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.nap.edu Available from the website. Document Number: ISBN 0-309-09150-0.

Keywords: Child development, Food safety, Infant formula, Infant nutrition, Milk, Nutrition assessment, Nutrition research

Ziegler EE. 2000. Adverse effects of cow milk in infants. Arlington, VA: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, 4 pp. (Research roundtable summary; no. 30)

Annotation: This document announces the Research Roundtable describing research on the adverse effects of cow milk in infants. The findings will be presented at a Research Roundtable sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. The announcement also includes a list of audioconference sites to which the discussion will be telecast. An overview of the study and an audio presentation of the program are available from the Web site. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Georgetown University, Telephone: (202) 784-9770 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.ncemch.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Adverse effects, Infants, MCH research, Milk, Milk intolerance

Howell R, Morriss FH, Pickering LK. 1986. Human milk in infant nutrition and health. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas , 334 pp.

Annotation: This book discusses macronutrients, electrolytes, and minerals in human milk; trace elements in human milk; chemical changes in milk during the course of lactation; enzymes in human milk; growth factors in milk; gastric protective properties of human milk; human milk humoral immunity and infant defense mechanisms; human milk protective mechanisms against bacterial enteropathogens; polymorphonuclear leukocytes in human colostrum and milk; lymphocyte subsets in colostrum; antiviral cellular cytotoxicity of colostrum; transmission of viruses through human milk; human milk banking; pharmacokinetics of drugs in human milk; and chemical contaminants in human milk.

Keywords: Human milk, Infant nutrition

Ross Conference on Pediatric Research (91st: 1985: Carefree, AZ). 1986. The breastfed infant: A model for performance. Columbus, OH: Ross Laboratories, 167 pp. (Report of the 91st Ross Conference on Pediatric Research )

Annotation: The report summarizes a conference on nutrient utilization by the normal full term breastfed infant in order to help future research in infant nutrition and to help serve as a model for feeding infants appropriately. It presents highly clinical information on the consumption of human milk, the regulation of milk intake, growth and development, and the effect of mode of feeding.

Contact: Ross Laboratories, Consumer Relations, 625 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215-1724, Telephone: (800) 227-5767 Secondary Telephone: (614) 624-7485 Contact Phone: (614) 227-3333 Web Site: http://www.ross.com Price unknown.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Conference proceedings, Infant feeding, Infant nutrition, Lactation management, Milk, Nutrients

Gottesman II, Heston LL, eds. 1973. Summary of the Conference on Lactose and Milk Intolerance. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Child Development, 49 pp.

Annotation: These are the proceedings of a conference on lactose and milk intolerance held in Washington, DC, on March 13, 1972. The topics addressed included lactose malabsorption; milk intolerance, including its clinical, developmental, epidemiological and practical aspects; the cultural geography of dairying; the distribution of lactose intolerance in man; and the evolution of lactose tolerance. The conference was sponsored by the Office of Child Development in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Keywords: Conference proceedings, Lactose intolerance, Milk intolerance

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

White House Conference on Child Health and Protection (1930: Washington, D.C.). 1930. White House conference on child health and protection: Preliminary committee reports. New York, NY: Century, 593 pp.

Annotation: The reports of this publication prepared for the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection concern the welfare of children in the United States. The topics of the reports are growth and development, prenatal and maternal care, medical care, public health organization, communicable disease control, milk production and control, family and parent education, the infant and preschool child, the school child, vocational guidance and child labor, recreation and physical education, special classes, youth outside the home and school, organizations for children with developmental disabilities and special health needs, physically and mentally handicapped, socially handicapped, and delinquency.

Keywords: Child development, Child health, Child labor, Child protective services, Child welfare, Children with developmental disabilities, Children with special health care needs, Communicable disease control, Conferences, Family life education, Health services, Infants, Juvenile delinquency, Milk, Physical education, Prenatal care, Preschool children, Public health services, Recreation, Social work, United States, Vocational education

Mendenhall DR. 1926. Milk: The indispensable food for children. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 43 pp. (Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau); no. 35 (1918 ed.), no. 163 (1926 ed.); Care of children series; no. 4 (1918 ed.))

Annotation: This publication provides information on the critical importance of milk for the normal healthy development of infants and children, and for pregnant women and nursing mothers. The nature and value of milk as a food, and information on breast milk and on the purchasing and preparation of milk for infants, are included. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Infant nutrition, Milk, Reports, War

U.S. Children's Bureau. 1919. Milk. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 4 pp. (Children's Bureau, Dodger no. 7)

U.S. Children's Bureau. 1914. Baby-saving campaigns: A preliminary report on what American cities are doing to prevent infant mortality. (4th ed.). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 93 pp. (Children's Bureau publication; no. 3; Infant mortality series; no. 3)

Annotation: This publication provides information, collected in 1913, on the work being carried out in various cities to prevent infant mortality. Information on baby-saving campaigns, birth registration, milk stations, and visiting nurses is provided. An appendix with leaflets developed in multiple languages on prenatal care and breastfeeding is included. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Food safety, Health education, Home care services, Housing, Infant mortality, Infant nutrition, Interagency cooperation, Local MCH programs, Milk, Prenatal care
   

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