Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy

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Mosby Year Book, 1992 - Diet therapy - 486 pages
This new edition of BASIC NUTRITION AND DIET THERAPY presents the latest developments in nutrition, while maintaining the basic fundamentals in a clear, concise, easy-to-understand format. New content includes the latest food guide information and food exchange lists; expanded coverage of eating disorders; and a new appendix on cultural dietary patterns.

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Contents

Carbohydrates
12
Functions of Carbohydrates
19
Functions of Fat
27
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absorption activity adults American amino acids amount balance basic blood body's bread butter calcium cancer carbohydrate cause cells cereals cheese chemical cholesterol chronic clinical cooked cream deficiency diabetes diabetes mellitus Diet Assoc dietary fiber digestion eating electrolytes energy needs enriched flour enzyme essential exercise factors fatty acids feeding fluid food habits food patterns food sources fruit fuel function gastrointestinal gastrointestinal tract glucose glycogen growth hormone hypertension increased individual infants insulin intake iron juice kcal kidney kilocalories legumes levels liver loss malnutrition meals meat membranes metabolic milk minerals muscle nephrons Niacin normal Nutr Today nutrients patient persons Potassium pregnancy problems protein RDA standard Recommended dietary allowances renal require Riboflavin risk salt slice sodium specific starch sugar supplements surgery Table tbsp Thiamin tissue total kcalories Tr Tr Tr vegetables vitamin vitamin D

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TitleBasic Nutrition and Diet Therapy
AuthorSue Rodwell Williams
Edition9, illustrated
PublisherMosby Year Book, 1992
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedAug 19, 2008
ISBN0801664535, 9780801664533
Length486 pages
  
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