Nutrition throughout the life cycle
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Nutrition throughout the life cycle
Mosby, c1996
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text is designed to cover the major special nutrition issues present at different periods of the life cycle. Emphasis is on physical fitness in each life cycle stage by including content on fitness-related topics. Issues such as the Food Guide Pyramid, vegetarian diets, the problem of teenage pregnancy and preconception care for women planning pregnancies are addressed. Attention is also given to addiction behaviours that harm health in each life cycle stage.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to the life cycle - the role of nutrition
- nutrition and assessment basics
- nutrition and the adult - planning for a healthy lifestyle
- maternal nutrition - the course and outcome of pregnancy
- lactation and human milk
- nutrition during infancy
- nutrition in childhood
- nutrition in adolescence
- nutrition for ageing and the aged.
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