Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics

Description:

The importance of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of disease and the maintenance of good health is being increasingly recognised. Nutrition is an area that all health professionals need to be aware of and yet one in which few are specifically trained. However it is now becoming a valued topic in many curricula. The Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics makes this information more accessible to dieticians, doctors, nurses, nutritionists, and other healthcare professionals by providing a practical, easily accessible, concise and up-to-date evidence-based guide in a user-friendly portable handbook. It covers the entire life cycle from preconception to old age. As the general public is increasingly aware of the food they eat and the role nutrition plays in health and disease, health professionalsmust have the kind of knowledge in this book at their fingertips.

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction to nutrition

2 Dietary reference values and food-based dietary guidelines

3 Current dietary patterns in the UK

4 Nutrition assessment

5 Macronutrients and energy balance

6 Micronutrients

7 Electrolytes and fluid balance

8 Food labelling, functional foods, nutrigenetics, and nutrigenomics and food supplements

9 Non-nutrient components of food

10 Nutrition and catering in institutions

11 Popular diets

12 Diet before and during pregnancy

13 Infants and preschool children

14 School-aged children and adolescents

15 Older people

16 Nutrition in vulnerable population groups

17 Nutrition intervention with patients and individuals

18 Nutrition policy

19 Healthy and sustainable diets

20 Global nutrition

21 Obesity

22 Diabetes

23 Cardiovascular disease

24 Cancer

25 Nutrition support

26 Nutrition in gastrointestinal diseases

27 Pancreatic disease

28 Liver disease

29 Kidney disease

30 Respiratory disease and cystic fibrosis

31 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection

32 Nutrition in mental health

33 Nutrition in neurological conditions

34 Rheumatology, dermatology, and bone health

35 Palliative care

36 Inherited metabolic disorders

37 Food hypersensitivity

38 Drug–nutrient interactions and prescription of nutritional products

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Index