Nutrition essentials and diet therapy

Nutrition essentials and diet therapy

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Nutrition Essentials and Diet Therapy provides complete coverage of all of the content needed in an LPN/LVN curriculum. This versatile text concentrates on what is most important for the health care provider to know about the nutrition basics and the application on nutrition knowledge. Coverage incl...

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Main Author: Peckenpaugh, Nancy J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Louis, Mo. Saunders/Elsevier 2010
Edition:ELEVENTH EDITION
Subjects:
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Diet Therapy
Nutritional Requirements
Public Health
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Table of Contents:
  • The art of nutrition in a social context
  • Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats : the energy
  • Macronutrients of balanced meals
  • The micronutrients of balanced meals : vitamins
  • Minerals, and phytochemicals
  • Digestion, absorption, and metabolism in health and disease
  • Insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome
  • Obesity and healthy weight management
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Renal disease
  • Cancer : nutrition prevention and treatment
  • Maternal and infant nutrition in health and disease
  • Growth development issues in promoting good health
  • Nutrition over the adult life span
  • Public health issues in national and international nutrition
  • The nutrition care process in the health care setting.

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