Understanding normal and clinical nutrition / Sharon Rady Rolfes, Kathryn Pinna, Ellie Whitney

includes bibliography and index

Brief Contents:

CHAPTER 1 An overview of nutrition
CHAPTER 2 Planning a Healthy Diet
CHAPTER 3 Digestion, Absorption, and Transport
CHAPTER 4 The Carbohydrates: sugars, starches and fibers
CHAPTER 5 The Lipids: triglycerides, phospholipids and sterols
CHAPTER 6 Protein: Amino Acids
CHAPTER 7 Metabolism: transformations, and Interactions
CHAPTER 8 Energy Balance and Body Composition
CHAPTER 9 Weight management: Overweight and underweight
CHAPTER 10 The water-soluble vitamins: B vitamins and vitamin c
CHAPTER 11 The Fat-soluble vitamins: A,D,E and K
CHAPTER 12 Water and the Major Minerals
CHAPTER 13 The trace Minerals
CHAPTER 14 Life Cycle Nutrition: Pregnancy and Lactation
CHAPTER 15 Life Cycle Nutrition: Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
CHAPTER 16 Life Cycle Nutrition: Adulthood and the Later years
CHAPTER 17 Nutrition Care and Assessment
CHAPTER 18 Nutrition Intervention
CHAPTER 19 Diet, Medications, and Dietary Supplements
CHAPTER 20 Enteral Nutrition Support
CHAPTER 21 Parenteral Nutrition Support
CHAPTER 22 Nutrition in Metabolic and Respiratory stress
CHAPTER 23 Nutrition and Disorders of the upper gastrointestinal tract
CHAPTER 24 Nutrition and Lower Gastrointestinal Disorders
CHAPTER 25 Nutrition, Liver Disease and Gallstones
CHAPTER 26 Nutrition and Diabetics Mellitus
CHAPTER 27 Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease
CHAPTER 28 Nutrition and Renal Disease
CHAPTER 29 Nutrition, Cancer, and HIV Infection