Diet and Nutrition: A guide for students and practitioners by Brenda Piper (Engl

Publisher Description

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.

Table of Contents

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.

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