Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy / Edition 12

by Eleanor Schlenker PhD, RDN, Joyce Ann Gilbert PhD, RDN

Overview

Learn the latest nutrition and diet therapies for treating common diseases. Williams' Essentials of Nutrition & Diet Therapy, 12th Edition offers a solid foundation in the fundamental knowledge and skills you need to provide effective patient care. It addresses nutrition across the lifespan and includes the 2015 Dietary Goals for Americans as well as MyPlate for Older Adults. This exceptionally reader-friendly text features evidence-based information, real-world case scenarios, colorful illustrations, boxes, and tables to help you learn how to apply essential nutrition concepts and therapies in clinical practice.

• Strong community focus is threaded throughout with robust coverage of health promotion, cultural competence, patient safety, lifespan, and public health issues.
• Focus on Culture boxes introduce you to cultural competence and the special nutritional needs, health problems, and appropriate interventions applicable to different cultural, ethnic, racial and age groups.
• Focus on Food Safety boxes alert you to food safety issues related to a particular nutrient, age group, or medical condition.
• Health Promotion section devoted solely to health promotion and wellness stresses healthy lifestyle choices and prevention as the best "medicine."
• Diet-Medication Interactions boxes provide diet-warnings related to specific prescription drugs.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize current research findings.
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) boxes offer uses, contraindications, and advantages/disadvantages of common types of herbs and supplements and potential interactions with prescription or over-the-counter medications.
• Perspective in Practice boxes supply you with practice elements for nutrition education.
• Key terms identified in the text and defined on the page help reinforce critical concepts.

• NEW! Includes the 2015 Dietary Goals for Americans which covers the latest guidelines and medications.
• NEW! MyPlate for Older Adults developed by the Tufts University Human Research Center on Aging and the AARP Foundation replaces former Food Guide Pyramid.
• NEW! Newly-approved Nutrition Labeling Guidelines incorporated into text along with the latest medications, research findings, and clinical treatment therapies.
• NEW! New and refreshed case studies illustrate key concepts in authentic, "real-life" scenarios that reinforce learning and promote nutritional applications.
• NEW! Expanded coverage of health promotion includes strategies for implementation.
• NEW! New coverage of text messages for nutrition and health information includes what to watch out for when visiting health-related web sites.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323529716
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	09/25/2018
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN NUTRITION 1.  Nutrition and Health 2.  Digestion, Absorption, and Metabolism 3. Carbohydrates 4. Lipids 5. Proteins 6. Vitamins 7. Minerals and Water 8. Energy Balance

PART 2:  COMMUNITY NUTRITION AND THE LIFE CYCLE 9. Food Selection and Food Safety 10. Community Nutrition: Promoting Healthy Eating 11. Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation 12. Nutrition for Normal Growth and Development 13. Nutrition for Adults: Early, Middle, and Later Years  14.  Nutrition and Physical Fitness 15. The Complexity of Obesity: Beyond Energy Balance

PART 3: INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL NUTRITION 16. Nutrition Assessment and Nutrition Therapy in Patient Care 17. Metabolic Stress 18. Drug-Nutrient Interactions 19. Nutrition Support: Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition 20. Gastrointestinal Diseases 21. Diseases of the Heart, Blood Vessels, and Lungs 22. Diabetes Mellitus 23. Renal Disease 24. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) 25. Cancer

Appendixes A. Body Mass Index: Obesity Values B. Food Sources of Oxalates C. Calculation Aids and Conversion Tables D. Federal Food Assistance Programs

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Editorial Reviews

"This update of Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy continues the high level quality we have come to expect of this book… and is an excellent addition to any nutrition classroom or as a reference for practitioners."

-Amy Hess-Fischl, MS, RD, LDN, BC-ADM, CDE (University of Chicago Medical Center) Doody Score: 5 Stars

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Reviewer: Amy Hess Fischl, MS RDN LDN BC-ADM CDCES(University of Chicago Medical Center)
Description: This update of Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy continues the high level quality we have come to expect of this book. It retains the personal approach to educating, focusing on making it easy for readers to learn and grasp the information. Since the 10th edition was published in 2011, there has been a plethora of new nutrition information necessitating this new edition.
Purpose: The purpose is to teach the essential concepts of nutrition.
Audience: The primary audience is students, but the book can be used by practitioners as a good resource for basic nutrition information.
Features: The book is divided into three parts: Introduction to Human Nutrition; Community Nutrition and the Life Cycle; and Introduction to Clinical Nutrition. The book is accompanied by the Evolve website, an additional resource for students to obtain more study materials (including the additional appendixes as PDFs that are not included in the book, case studies with questions, flash cards and additional study questions). Chapters include an outline of the topics, questions for review, references and key terms, as well as multiple colorful tables, case studies, a Perspectives in Practice feature that highlights a topic of interest, and a Focus on Culture section. The chapter on diabetes has some excellent tables highlighting the criteria for diagnosis, metabolic goals, diet and medication interaction, medications used to treat diabetes, and equivalents of 15 grams of carbohydrate. Another table includes a meal planning guide for an active person with type 1 diabetes. The Perspectives in Practice section in this chapter focuses on travel and illness with diabetes, which is important for students and practitioners to understand and be ready to problem solve. I found it odd that it focused on exchanges instead of grams of carbohydrate. My patient population is solely type 1 diabetes patients, and exchanges are rarely, if ever, used. I would not recommend using this table since it is not typical of what is used in practice.
Assessment: This is an update of a standard for student nutrition education and is an excellent addition to any nutrition classroom and as a reference for practitioners.

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