Pocket Guide to Nutritional Care

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Your comprehensive, take-along guide to nutrition!
Mosby's Pocket Guide to Nutritional Care, fourth edition, is a concise yet compreliensive nutritional guide ideal for all caregivers. Designed for use in inpatient or outpatient settings, the new edition of this handy reference includes the very latest dietary recommendations, keeping you completely up to date!
The NEW fourth edition includes
• The most recent dietary recommendations, the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs), along with the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs).
• New growth charts for children and adolescents.
• Expanded coverage of hot issues, such as food safety, foodbome iUnesses, alcohol-related disorders, and sources of caffeine in foods and beverages.
• Additional resources for nutrition intervention, referral, and teaching.
• A new glossary for your quick reference needs.
This outstanding resource
• Integrates nutrition assessment into virtually every chapter, emphasizing its important role in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Your comprehensive, take-along guide to nutrition!
Mosby's Pocket Guide to Nutritional Care, fourth edition, is a concise yet compreliensive nutritional guide ideal for all caregivers. Designed for use in inpatient or outpatient settings, the new edition of this handy reference includes the very latest dietary recommendations, keeping you completely up to date!
The NEW fourth edition includes
• The most recent dietary recommendations, the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs), along with the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs).
• New growth charts for children and adolescents.
• Expanded coverage of hot issues, such as food safety, foodbome iUnesses, alcohol-related disorders, and sources of caffeine in foods and beverages.
• Additional resources for nutrition intervention, referral, and teaching.
• A new glossary for your quick reference needs.
This outstanding resource
• Integrates nutrition assessment into virtually every chapter, emphasizing its important role in planning nutrition interventions and teaching.
• Provides thorough coverage of the apphcation of enteral and parenteral nutrition support wherever appropriate.
• Explains the physiology or pathophysiology related to the life cycle stages and various disease states, providing understanding of alterations in nutrient digestion, absorption, or metaboUsm, or of specific nutrition needs related to each developmental sti^e.
• Overviews the cultural and ethnic impacts on nutrition to provide a basis for understanding a patient's/client's food intake and preferences.
• Emphasizes the importance of weight control and physical activity in the maintenance of good health.
• Is provided in a convenient, take-along size perfect for your pocket or bag!
For more information on this text and other Harcourt nutrition texts, visit our new Nutrition Resource Center website at www.harcourthealth.com/Nutrition/. Vissza