Main description:

Good nutrition is essential for health and the treatment of disease. This new handbook aims to provide students, doctors and healthcare professionals with essential information to apply medical nutrition theory in their everyday practice.

Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare: A Practical Guide takes a systems-based approach to medical nutrition. It includes the pathophysiology of nutrition-related disease as well as the clinical application of nutrition theory in disease management and the role of nutrition in public health. It covers the basics of physiology and biochemistry, including relevant drug-nutrient interactions.

This will be an invaluable asset for all those not already trained in clinical and public health nutrition who wish to understand more about nutrition and its role in the management and prevention of disease.

Practical and easy to understand
Provides a sound explanation of underlying principles
Summarises clinically important nutritional approaches to disease management
Covers cutting edge topics in public health
Summary boxes of relevant drug-nutrient interactions
Case studies and self-test questions to encourage learning
Aligns with Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine
An enhanced eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Contents:

Foreword 1
Foreword 2
1 Basic Principles of Nutrition
2 Basic Principles of Screening and Assessment
3 Basic Principles of Nutritional Care Pathways
4 Acute and Chronic Nutrition Support
5 Nutrition in Respiratory Medicine
6 Nutrition in Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Medicine
7 Nutrition in Endocrine (Obesity/Diabetes) & Reproductive Medicine
7 Reproductive Medicine
8 Nutrition in Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Medicine
9 Nutrition in Hypertension and Kidney Medicine
10 Nutrition in Musculoskeletal and Disability Medicine
11 Nutrition in Haematology & Oncology
12 Nutrition in Immunology, Infection and Allergy
13 Nutrition and Mental Health
14 Nutrition in Public Health, Policy, Prevention and Implementation
Appendix - Nutrition & Clinical Science: Toolkit for further reading
Appendix - Precision Nutrition: Toolkit for practice
Appendix - Nutrition & COVID-19: Toolkit of emerging evidence