Medical Nutrition and Disease - Softcover

"The editors of this text have achieved their goal of developing an effective introduction to medical nutrition therapy for health professionals. Although this is not a comprehensive nutrition textbook, it addresses a wide scope of pertinent issues." Journal of American Dietetic Association

The book format's has been designed to introduce basic nutrition assessment and nutrition during the life cycle, followed by nutritional management of various diseases and fundamentals of enteral and parental nutritional support. Students benefit because the book can be used for more than one course over several years. For each chapter, lecture notes and clinical cases are provided, thereby reinforcing chapter content and providing practical approaches to patent care. Each clinical case includes a list of questions followed by answers, offering the reader an opportunity to think through the questions and then read the answers.