Understanding Normal and Clinical NutritionAbstract: A comprehensive reference text for college nutrition students, dietitians, clinical nutritionists, and other health professionals presents detailed, authoritative, colorfully-illustrated material on a variety of practical areas involving interactions between nutrition and health. Topics addressed by the 25 text chapters include: nutrition-health interaction concepts; diet planning guides; the characteristics and requirements of each of the major nutrietn classes; nutritional needs at different life stages; nutrient digestion, absorption, and in vivo transport; weight control; food safety; nutritional assessment and care strategies; hospital dietetics; nutritional and drug therapy; nutritional intervention in stress due to surgery, infection, and burns; nutritional interactions with system and organ disorders (gastrointestinal tract; liver; exocrine pancreas; gallbladder; heart and blood vessels; kidneys); and nutritional care of cancer patients. Ancillary data and information (including food composition data, RDA's, biochemical pathways, supplements, and enteral formulas) are presented in 12 appendices. |
Contents
Why Do We Eat As We Do? | 11 |
13 Foods and Food Safety 437 | 18 |
CONTENTS IN BRIEF | 45 |
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