Description
**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Nutrition** Master the essentials of nutrition science and patient care with this concise text! Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 13th Edition helps you understand and apply nutrition concepts in the treatment of disease, disease prevention, and life enhancement. The text is broken out into three parts: the basics of nutrients and the body, the life cycle and community nutrition, and clinical nutrition. Case studies help you determine nutritional interventions in treating both acute and chronic conditions. Written by nutrition specialists Joyce Gilbert and Eleanor D. Schlenker, this book includes the latest advances in research and evidence-based practice.- Strong community focus includes robust coverage of health promotion, cultural competence, patient safety, lifespan, and public health issues.- Person-centered approach helps you develop practical solutions to individual problems, based on the authors' personal research and clinical experience.- MyPlate for Older Adults is included, as developed by nutrition scientists at Tufts University and the AARP Foundation, along with the Nestlé Mini Nutritional Assessment Scale.- Health Promotion sections help you with nutrition education, stressing healthy lifestyle choices and prevention as the best medicine.- Case studies provide opportunities for problem solving, allowing you to apply concepts to practical situations in nutrition care.- Evidence-Based Practice boxes emphasize critical thinking and summarize current research findings.- Focus on Culture boxes highlight cultural competence and the nutritional deficiencies, health problems, and appropriate interventions relating to different cultural, ethnic, racial, and age groups.- Focus on Food Safety boxes alert you to food safety issues related to a particular nutrient, population group, or medical condition.- Complementary and Alternative Medicine boxes offer uses, contraindications, and advantages/disadvantages of common types of herbs and supplements, and potential interactions with prescription or over-the-counter medications.- Chapter summaries and review questions reinforce your understanding of key concepts and their application.- Key terms are identified in the text and defined on the page to help reinforce critical concepts.
Table of Contents
PART 1 Introduction to Human Nutrition1 Nutrition and Health2 Digestion, Absorption, and Metabolism3 Carbohydrates4 Lipids5 Proteins6 Vitamins7 Minerals and Water8 Energy BalancePART 2 Community Nutrition and the Life Cycle9 Food Selection and Food Safety10 Community Nutrition: Promoting Healthy Eating11 Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation12 Nutrition for Normal Growth and Development13 Nutrition for Aging Adults14 Nutrition and Physical FitnessPART 3 Introduction to Clinical Nutrition15 Nutrition Assessment and Nutrition Therapy in Patient Care16 Metabolic Stress17 Drug–Nutrient Interactions18 Nutrition Support: Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition19 Gastrointestinal Diseases20 Diseases of the Heart, Blood Vessels, and Lungs21 Diabetes Mellitus22 Renal Disease23 Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome24 CancerAppendix A Body Mass Index (Second of Two Body Mass Index Tables)Appendix B Food Sources of OxalatesAppendix C Calculation Aids and Conversion TablesAppendix D Federal Food Assistance ProgramsIndex
