Delivers comprehensive food and the nutrition care process information from educators and practitioners in the field. This title presents such recommendations as the MyPlate guide, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010, and a variety of tables, boxes, and pathophysiology algorithms, providing need-to-know information with ease.
Abstract: Principles of clinical nutrition and the role of dietetics and nutrition in health care are presented in this text for health professionals. Basics in the science of nutrition are described: nutrient-biochemistry and metabolism; nutritional status and age group; and the geographic and social problems of nutrition. The therapeutic role of nutrition in treatment of disease and metabolic disorders, and the function of diet therapy are discussed. Nutritional care includes education, meal planning, and nursing and the identification and evaluation of the patient's nutritional needs. Information on foods and food choices for nutritional health is given. A detailed appendix includes reference materials, resource aids for nutrition information, tables of nutritive values of foods, food composition tables, and guidelines for nutritional status assessment.