This digital series focuses on aspects of child and adolescent nutrition that impact overall health. Each hour-long session will introduce learners to a hot topic in Child Nutrition. Content will be cumulative across sessions. All sessions are held from 4:30pm – 5:30pm ET
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Breastfeeding, breast milk substitutes and feeding preterm infants |
Rebecca Hoban MD, MPH This 1-hour talk will cover a wide range of common neonatal feeding topics, focusing on breastfeeding/lactation for typical and at-risk populations, including:
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Is my patient growing ok? |
Jessie Hulst MD, PhD The assessment and monitoring of growth and nutritional status of developing children is critical. If a child is having problems with health or nutrition, growth is often affected. Therefore, it is important for physicians and health care providers to recognize deviations from the usual growth pattern. In this session, several topics will be highlighted using a case-based approach: normal growth, nutritional risk, growth and nutritional assessment — including anthropometric parameters — the use and interpretation of growth charts, and available clinical tools and resources. |
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Introduction to solids |
Meta van den Heuvel MD, PhD In this session, learners will gain expertise about complementary feeding in infants. Complementary feeding is defined by the World Health Organization as the “process of starting other foods when breast milk alone is no longer sufficient to meet the nutritional needs of infants.” The timing of complementary feeding and which foods to use will be discussed. In addition, implications for child health and development will be explored. |
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Picky eating |
Meta van den Heuvel MD, PhD In this session, learners will gain expertise about how to manage children with picky eating in their practice. Using 2 illustrative cases (an infant who refuses food, and a toddler who only eats his favorite food) participants will learn to apply the conceptual framework of a Pediatric Feeding Disorder when managing children with picky eating. |
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Healthy weights (preschool) |
Jill Hamilton MD Childhood obesity rates remain high and early identification and management is key to preventing future weight-related co-morbidities. In this session, we will focus on assessment and management of the pre-adolescent child with obesity. This includes identification of the ‘red flags’ indicating potential pathologic causes of obesity, as well as an approach to counselling in the office setting. |
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Healthy weights (adolescents) |
Jill Hamilton MD Adolescents with obesity are increasingly affected by co-morbidities such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. We will review screening guidelines for this population, recommended behavioural approaches to counselling, and explore therapeutic options available for use in this age group. |
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Food allergies |
Julia Upton MD, MPH, FRCP (C), FAAAI This session will describe how early introduction and ongoing ingestion of allergenic foods can reduce the development of food allergy and recognizes that a delay in the introduction of allergenic foods can increase the development of food allergy. We will also summarize the clinical practice guidelines for feeding infants allergenic foods. |
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Cow and plant-based milk and bone health |
Jonathon Maguire MD, MSc, FRCPC |
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Iron deficiency in young children |
Nicole Bourgeois MSc, RD Lauren Scott MN, NP-PHC Iron deficiency is a common nutritional deficiency worldwide, and young children are at risk. In this session, we will review risk factors for iron deficiency, practical dietary strategies to reduce risk, identification of iron deficiency as well as treatment approaches. |
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Food insecurity |
Valerie Tarasuk PhD, MSc, BASc, BEd, BA |