MICRONUTRIENTS AND CHILDREN’S HEALTH
Nutrient deficiency in children’s food leads to delay in physical and neuropsychic development, increase risk of various diseases. Longstanding deficit of several nutrients in a diet can lead to permanent changes in child’s body. This is vitally important especially in childhood and adolescence — ti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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"Paediatrician" Publishers LLC
2011-11-01
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| Series: | Voprosy Sovremennoj Pediatrii |
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| Online Access: | https://vsp.spr-journal.ru/jour/article/view/798 |
| Summary: | Nutrient deficiency in children’s food leads to delay in physical and neuropsychic development, increase risk of various diseases. Longstanding deficit of several nutrients in a diet can lead to permanent changes in child’s body. This is vitally important especially in childhood and adolescence — time of most extensive growth and development. The review covers physiological role of vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin-mineral metabolism in children and main reasons of possible deficit of these micronutrients in their diet. Recommendations upon prevention and correction of vitamin-mineral deficit with the use of individually prescribed vitamin-mineral complexes are given in the article.Key words: children, health, micronutrients, vitamin & mineral complexes. (Voprosy sovremennoi pediatrii — Current Pediatrics. — 2011; 10 (6): 179–185) |
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| ISSN: | 1682-5527 1682-5535 |