Description
- Content thoroughly revised to keep in line with the latest INC syllabus
- Content revised for better clarity of concepts, ensuring comprehensive and exhaustive coverage
- Content updated to provide information on recent trends in clinical biochemistry
- Text presented in short sentences, sometimes fragments, in the form of bulleted points
- Easy-to-read simple language used for ease of comprehension
- Numerous graphics, tables, diagrams and pictures provided wherever needed
- Applied aspects of topics, e.g. recommended dietary allowances (RDAs), cookery rules and preservation of nutrients, balanced diet and role of nurse in nutritional programmes, etc., in nutrition and various investigations in biochemistry provided in sufficient detail
- Chapter in a Nutshell, short summary, appended in the end of every chapter to help the learner quickly revise the chapter's content
- Exam-oriented exercises provided to help students prepare themselves on the lines of the exam
- Clinical Applications Boxes – a feature provided to help students comprehend the importance of biochemical information in diagnosis and treatment of clinical problems
- Recent developments in nutrition and its emerging concepts
- Recent changes in the Food Safety Standards and Regulations
- Nutrition assessments in the Community Settings and different methods of feeding patients
- Role of Nurse in various programmes of nutrition
- Tables provided as ready reckoner of nutritive values for common foods
Table of Contents
PART A Nutrition
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
CHAPTER 2 Carbohydrates
CHAPTER 3 Proteins
CHAPTER 4 Fats
CHAPTER 5 Vitamins
CHAPTER 6 Minerals
CHAPTER 7 Balanced diet
CHAPTER 8 Nutritional deficiency disorders
CHAPTER 9 Therapeutic diets
CHAPTER 10 Cookery rules
CHAPTER 11 Nutrition assessment and nutrition education
CHAPTER 12 National nutrition programmes and role of nurse
PART B Biochemistry
CHAPTER 13 Introduction to biochemistry
CHAPTER 14 Carbohydrates
CHAPTER 15 Lipids
CHAPTER 16 Proteins, nucleic acids and protein synthesis
CHAPTER 17 Enzymes and clinical enzymology
CHAPTER 18 Acid–base balance
CHAPTER 19 Haemoglobin
CHAPTER 20 Organ function tests
CHAPTER 21 Immunochemistry
Appendix A Energy
Appendix B Water and electrolyte balance (Nutrition)
Appendix C Cell
Appendix D Cell membrane—Structure, composition and functions
Appendix E Vitamins
Appendix F Mineral metabolism
Appendix G Water and electrolyte balance (Biochemistry)
Index
