A good diet is essential for health and healing. This new book is intended to provide students, doctors, and practitioners with the essential information they need to apply nutrition theory to their daily practice. The importance of nutrition in medicine and health care: a practical guide to using a systems approach to dietetics. This includes the pathophysiology of nutrition-related diseases, as well as the clinical application of nutrition in disease management and the role of nutrition in public health. Covers the basics of physiology and biochemistry, including the chemical implications of nutrition.
This will be an invaluable resource for anyone not yet trained in health and public health who wants to better understand nutrition and its role in disease control and prevention. Practical and easy to understand.
Give good explanations of the basic principles.
Summarizes the clinical importance of good nutrition for disease management.
Covers important public health topics.
Summary Box of Related Drug-Nutrient Interactions
Case studies and personal questions to support learning
Followed by Kumar and Clark’s clinical medicine
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