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Human nutrition : a health perspective / Mary E. Barasi

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Hodder Arnold, [2003]Edition: 2nd edDescription: xi, 403 p. : figs., tabs. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780340810255
  • 9780340810255
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Partial contents:
What is nutrition? -- What are the influences on eating habits? -- Basics of a healthy diet -- Proteins -- Fats -- Carbohydrates -- Energy needs -- Energy balance -- Vitamins -- Minerals, electrolytes and fluid -- Pregnancy and lactation -- Infants, children and adolescents -- Adults and the elderly population -- Diet and coronary heart disease -- Diet and cancer -- Challenges to nutritional status -- Optimizing nutrition -- Public health nutrition and health promotion
Summary: This text introduces the reader to nutritional theory, and by considering everyday eating practice, applies this to the maintenance of health and prevention of disease.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

What is nutrition? -- What are the influences on eating habits? -- Basics of a healthy diet -- Proteins -- Fats -- Carbohydrates -- Energy needs -- Energy balance -- Vitamins -- Minerals, electrolytes and fluid -- Pregnancy and lactation -- Infants, children and adolescents -- Adults and the elderly population -- Diet and coronary heart disease -- Diet and cancer -- Challenges to nutritional status -- Optimizing nutrition -- Public health nutrition and health promotion

This text introduces the reader to nutritional theory, and by considering everyday eating practice, applies this to the maintenance of health and prevention of disease.

Previous ed.: 1997.

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