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Abstract
Many parents complain of their young children’s poor appetite. Although this is partly related to physiologic appetite reduction as a result of natural decline in growth rate and lesser need for food in relation to bodyweight, still there are cases in which this complaint is associated with children’s reduction of weight and height1
Appetite is a complex concept. However, from a biological perspective, it can be defined as “the internal driving force for search, choice and ingestion of food”. Alternatively, in a broader context, appetite represents a set of physiological processes coupled with psychological and environmental factors, which determine the daily eating pattern 2
Children with poor appetite rarely demonstrate a desire to eat, exhibit early satiety 3 and typically consume inadequate quantities of food to support normal growth 4. Poor appetite is less common than selectivity and accounts for about 25% of feeding problems in a primary care setting5
The materials for this essay will be collected from the related primary and secondary databases, which include complete articles, as well as guidelines to diagnosis for poor appetite among children ,