Dietetics & Nutrition

This book will provide the reader with the knowledge required to diagnose and treat malnutrition in a variety of people in multiple care settings..

Organizes and integrates information on the diverse special areas of scientific expertise involved in Precision Nutrition in order to inform health professionals and inspire researchers to advance this field while applying the general principles into health care and medical research now. Broken into three sections, this book addresses the fundamentals of precision nutrition, applications of precision nutrition in health and disease, and the future directions of precision nutrition.

A comprehensive review of pediatric nutrition primarily for a dietitian, dietetics student, or a master's level student in pediatric nutrition. With disease-specific chapters, the content begins with a brief overview of pathophysiology including incidence or prevalence data, etiology, clinical signs and symptoms, and alterations in metabolism. This information is followed by nutritional guidance in the ADIME (assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring, and evaluation) format.

Explores a wide range of studies from clinical investigations to mechanistic research, covering the actions of bioactives on specific tissues and cells in intestinal, neurological, immunological and cardiovascular health and disease, including cancers. The book also focuses on metabolism, mechanisms of actions, tissue-specific effects, and the structure-function relationships between clinical trial, ex vivo and in vitro data.

Introduces the basic concepts of the scientific method, statistical analysis, and research in the context of the increasingly evidence-based field of nutrition and dietetics. Focusing on quantitative analysis and drawing on short, practical exercises and real-world examples, this textbook helps students understand samples, principles of measurement, confidence intervals, the theoretical basis and practical application of statistical tests, and more.

Divided into four main sections, Dietary Sugar, Salt and Fat in Human Health explores the biochemical, pharmacological and medicinal aspects related to the overindulgence of dietary salt, sugar, and fat, along with possible remedies. The text outlines aspects associated with advancing age and human physiology, such as different aspects of insulin resistance, the advancing age phenomenon, central fat accumulation and metabolic perturbations and the role of the modern Western diet and the influence of dietary sugar, salt, and fat, with particular focus on their relation to multiple biochemical pathophysiological pathways.