Modern nutrition in health and disease

Author(s)

• Ross, Alta Catharine

Bibliographic Information

Modern nutrition in health and disease

editors, A. Catharine Ross ... [et al.]

Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2014

11th ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This widely acclaimed book is a complete, authoritative reference on nutrition and its role in contemporary medicine, dietetics, nursing, public health, and public policy. Distinguished international experts provide in-depth information on historical landmarks in nutrition, specific dietary components, nutrition in integrated biologic systems, nutritional assessment through the life cycle, nutrition in various clinical disorders, and public health and policy issues. Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease , 11th Edition, offers coverage of nutrition's role in disease prevention, international nutrition issues, public health concerns, the role of obesity in a variety of chronic illnesses, genetics as it applies to nutrition, and areas of major scientific progress relating nutrition to disease.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BB11944575
• ISBN:
  • 9781605474618
• LCCN: 2012035998
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Philadelphia ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xxiv, 1616 p., [4] p. of plates
• Size: 29 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Nutrition
  • LCSH : Diet therapy
  • MESH : Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
  • MESH : Micronutrients -- physiology
  • MESH : Micronutrients -- therapeutic use
  • MESH : Nutrition Therapy