Second Edition
by Vishwanath M. Sardesai
This Second Edition emphasizes the importance of nutrition to medicine and allied health sciences, and how the principles of good nutrition can enhance day-to-day clinical practice. It also introduces new chapters and fully updated material covering the most important topics pertinent to the world of clinical nutrition.
Introduction to Clinical Nutrition:
- Elaborates on the digestion and absorption of macronutrients (carbohydrates, fats, and proteins) and reveals the effects of their deficiency and excess on health
- Elucidates the biochemistry of essential fatty acids and their nutritional role
- Presents eicosanoids, their relation to disease, and the dietary manipulation of their formation
- Details inorganic elements, vitamins, and vitamin-like substances in terms of chemistry, food sources, biochemical roles, physiological and metabolic interrelations, and effects of deficiency and excess
- Describes special nutritional needs during pregnancy, lactation, and the life cycle in relation to physiologic changes
- Specifies techniques to assess nutritional status and focuses on the interaction of nutrition with disease, such as obesity, hyperlipidemia, osteoporosis, diabetes, and genetic illnesses
- And much more!
It profiles real clinical cases in various chapters to facilitate the understanding and application of nutrition principles.
In addition, this outstanding text features topics of special interest that include
- Dietary fiber
- Antioxidants
- Popular dietary practices
- Naturally occurring toxicants in foods
- Additives
- Biotransformation
- Nutraceuticals
Based on a highly successful course, this unique textbook is excellent for students in nutrition, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, and related fields as well as nutritionists, dietitians, public health and allied health professionals, biochemists, and pharmacists.
Contents
- Biology and Biochemistry
- Introduction: Fundamentals of Nutrition
- Digestion of Carboyhydrates, Lipids, and Proteins
- Requirements for Energy, Carbohydrates, Fat, and Proteins
- Role of Essential Fatty Acids
- Eicosanoids
- Inorganic Elements (Minerals)
- Vitamins—An Overview
- Fat-Soluble Vitamins
- Water-Soluble Vitamins I
- Water-Soluble Vitamins II
- Vitamin-Like Substances
- Special Nutritional Needs
- Nutritional Aspects of Pregnancy and Lactation
- Nutrition and Development
- Nutrition and Aging
- Nutrition and Specific Disorders
- Nutritional Assessment
- Obesity and Eating Disorders
- Cholesterol and Hyperlipidemia
- Osteoporosis
- Nutritional Aspects of Diabetes
- Nutritional Aspects of Genetic Disease
- Nutritional and Metabolic Effects of Alcohol
- Nutritional Epidemiology
- Special Topics
- Dietary Fiber
- Antioxidants and Health
- Toxicants Occurring Naturally in Foods and Additives
- Vegetarianism and Other Popular Nutritional Practices
- Nutritional Aspects of Biotransformation
- Nutraceuticals
- Alternative Medicine: Dietary Supplements
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