Diet and Nutrition

A guide for students and practitioners

Brenda Piper (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

425 Seiten

1996 | 1996 ed.
Nelson Thornes Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-412-59700-8 (ISBN)

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This text offers a comprehensive guide to nutrition, diet and food for health professionals. It summarizes the present knowledge of human nutrition and applies this to dietary planning for particular groups and individuals.

This text offers a comprehensive guide to nutrition, diet and food for health professionals. It summarizes the present knowledge of human nutrition, applies this to dietary planning for particular groups and individuals, and presents a translation of nutritional knowledge into specific advice. The aim of the text is to promote understanding of the main concepts of nutrition, so that dietary advice can be based on sound principles and applied with common sense.

Part 1 Physiological nutrition: nutrition, diet and health; digestion, absorption and metabolism; carbohydrates; proteins; fats; vitamins; mineral elements; dietary energy. Part 2 Dietary planning: a healthy diet; pregnancy and lactation; feeding children; diet in adult life; the elderly; ethnic groups; vegetarianism; low-income groups; diabetes mellitus; diet and nutrition in hospital; adverse reactions to foods. Part 3 Food and food products: foods - their composition, labelling, storage and choice; meals and recipes.

Zusatzinfo	21 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 425 p. 21 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
ISBN-10	0-412-59700-4 / 0412597004
ISBN-13	978-0-412-59700-8 / 9780412597008
Zustand	Neuware