Handbook of nutrition and food /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Berdanier, Carolyn D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Food constituents
  • Metabolic maps
  • Tables of clinical significance
  • Animal needs and uses (comparative nutrition)
  • Nutrition during pregnancy and lactation
  • Feeding the premature infant
  • Feeding the term infant
  • Nutrition for healthy children and adolescents ages 2 to 18 years
  • The health-promoting diet throughout life : adults
  • Nutrition in the later years
  • Dietary guidelines, food guidance, and diet quality
  • Dietary guidelines in three regions of the world
  • Healthy people - goals and interpretations
  • Food labeling : foods and dietary supplements
  • Nutrition monitoring in the United States
  • Clinical nutrition studies : unique applications
  • Nutrition monitoring and research studies : observational studies
  • Nutrition monitoring and research studies : nutrition screening initiative
  • Dietary intake assessment : methods for adults
  • Validity and reliability of dietary assessment in school-age children
  • Methods and tools for dietary intake assessment in individuals vs. groups
  • The use of food frequency questionnaires in minority populations
  • Computerized nutrient analysis systems
  • Nutrient data analysis techniques and strategies
  • Medical nutritional evaluation
  • Assessment of lipids and lipoproteins
  • Genetics of energy and nutrient intake
  • Documentation to improve medical assessment access and reimbursement
  • Body composition assessment
  • The how and why of body composition assessment
  • Frame size, circumferences, and skinfolds
  • Height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) in childhood
  • Anthropometric assessment : height, weight, body mass index (BMI) (adults)
  • Glossary of terms used in energy assessment
  • Metabolic assessment of the overweight patient
  • Energy assessment : physical activity
  • Thermogenesis
  • Environmental challenges and assessment
  • Psychological tests
  • Vegetarian diets in health promotion and disease prevention
  • Allergic disorders
  • Enteral nutrition
  • Parenteral nutrition
  • Sports : elite athletes
  • Alcohol : its metabolism and interaction with nutrients
  • Anemias
  • Nutritional treatment of blood pressure : nonpharmacologic therapy
  • Nutritional treatment of blood pressure : major nonpharmacologic trials of prevention or treatment of hypertension
  • Chemoprevention of cancer in humans by dietary means
  • Nutrition and cancer treatment
  • Cardiovascular disease risk : prevention by diet
  • Hyperlipidemias and nutrient-gene interactions
  • Nutrition in diabetes mellitus
  • Nutrition and oral medicine
  • Foodborne infections and infestations
  • Nutrition and the hollow organs of the upper gastrointestinal tract
  • Nutrition and the hollow organs of the lower gastrointestinal tract
  • Nutrient metabolism and support in the normal and diseased liver
  • Nutrition and the pancreas : physiology and interventional strategies
  • Renal nutrition
  • Disorders of the skeleton and kidney stones
  • Nutrients and eye disease
  • Protein-energy malnutrition
  • Vitamin deficiencies
  • Rationale for use of vitamin and mineral supplements
  • Nutrition in clinical illness
  • Nutritional therapies for neurological and psychiatric disorders
  • Eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder)
  • Adult obesity
  • Childhood obesity and exercise
  • Trace mineral deficiencies
  • Questionable practices in foods and nutrition : definitions and descriptions