Fundamentals of Human Nutrition
for Students and Practitioners in the Health Sciences
By- Catherine Geissler, BDS, MS, PhD, RNutr, Professor Emerita of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, King's College London, London, UK; Director, Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre, Higher Education Academy, King's College London, London, UK
- Hilary Powers, BSc, PhD, RNutr, Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry and Head of Human Nutrition Unit, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Fundamentals of Human Nutrition is an authoritative overview that will help you understand the complex subject of human nutrition. This book is a digest of material from the highly successful Human Nutrition 11th edition.
Fundamentals is intended for a wide readership of students and practitioners who need a broad understanding of human nutrition, but for whom an in-depth knowledge is not essential. Students and practitioners of nursing, pharmacy, sports science, dentistry and other allied health professions, as well as the interested lay person, will benefit from its easy-to-follow, concise approach.
Paperback, 324 Pages
Published: July 2009
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
ISBN: 978-0-443-06972-7
Contents
- Chapter 1 The Importance of Nutrition
Chapter 2 Body Composition and Energy balance
Chapter 3 Food consumption
Chapter 4 Main dietary components
Chapter 5 Minor dietary components
Chapter 6 Diet and the lifecycle
Chapter 7 Diet for sport and exercise
Chapter 8 Diet and disease
Chapter 9 Nutrition and the hard tissues
Chapter 10 Diet and the gastrointestinal tract
Chapter 11 Diet and genotype interactions: nutritional genomics
Chapter 12 Nutritional epidemiology and nutritional assessment
Chapter 13 Public Health Nutrition
Appendices:
Glossary
Dietary reference values
Index
