Pediatric Nutrition

Overview

Pediatric nutrition is the field concerned with the dietary needs of infants, children, and adolescents and how nutrition supports their growth, development, and long-term health. Because childhood is a period of rapid physical and cognitive development, adequate intake of energy, protein, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients is essential for building healthy tissues, supporting brain development, strengthening the immune system, and establishing patterns that influence health into adulthood. Nutritional needs change markedly across the stages of childhood, from infant feeding through the introduction of solid foods to the demands of adolescent growth, and both undernutrition and overnutrition carry risks, with deficiencies impairing growth and development and excess intake contributing to childhood obesity and related conditions. Monitoring growth, often using growth charts, is a key tool for assessing whether a child's nutrition is meeting their needs. The International Journal of Nutrition publishes peer-reviewed work relevant to these themes, including studies on obesity and asthma as nutrition-related risk factors in adolescents and on which growth charts to use for children. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to pediatric nutrition and the role of diet in children's growth and health.

Research published in this journal

3 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

This page summarises published research for orientation; it is not medical or professional advice.

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