Nutrition at a Glance, by (University of Wales, Cardiff), provides succinct information in a user-friendly, well illustrated format, with a broad coverage taking in such key topics as:
• What makes an adequate diet
• The role of key nutrients in maintaining heath
• Food allergy and intolerance
• Obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease and gastrointestinal disease
• Nutrition and the brain
• Food choice and food policies.
Use as aresource for students in need of an introduction to the area or a revision tool, or as a handy quick reference for busy health professionals.
Contents:
Part 1 - Nutritional principles
Part 2 - Components of a balanced diet: the nutrients and dietary factors
Part 3 - The role of nutrition in key organs/systems for the supply of nutrients
Part 4 - Physiological and other challenges to meeting nutritional needs
Part 5 - Nutrition-related disease
Part 6 - Improving diets
Apendix 1 - The vitamins: summary of functions and food sources
Appendix 2 - The minerals: summary of functions and food sources
Appendix 3 - Dietary reference values for food energy and nutrients for the UK
Publishing September 2007 / 144 pages / ISBN: 9781405134873 http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=9781405134873&site=1
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