Nutrition : a health promotion approach

By: Webb, Geoffery PMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London : Arnold ; New York : Oxford University Press [distributor], 2002Edition: 2nd EditionDescription: x, 470 p. : illustrationsISBN: 0340760699 ; 9780340760697Subject(s): Nutrition Physiology | Food | Health Promotion | AlimentationDDC classification: 612.3
Contents:
Part I. Concepts and principles. 1. Changing priorities for nutrition education (diet as a means to health promotion or disease prevention; etc.) . 2. Food selection. 3. Methods of nutritional surveillance and research (methods used to establish links between diet and chronic disease; etc.) 4. Dietary guidelines and recommendations. 5. Cellular energetics. -- Part II. Energy, energy balance and obesity. 6. Introduction to energy aspects of nutrition. 7. Energy balance and its regulation. 8. Obesity (prevalence; the medical and social consequences; the causes; prevention and treatment; etc.) -- Part III. The nutrients. 9. Carbohydrates. 10. Protein and amino acids. 11. Fat. 12. Vitamins and antioxidants. 13. The minerals. -- Part IV. Variation in nutritional requirements and priorities. 14. Nutrition and the human life-cycle. 15. Nutrition as treatment (diet as a specific component of therapy; malnutrition in hospital patients; etc.). 16. Some other groups and situations. -- Part V. The safety and quality of food (consumer protection; food poisoning; functional foods; etc.)
Summary: This is the second edition of a highly regarded introductory textbook, covering all aspects of nutrition including nutritional epidemiology, social aspects of nutrition, and all the microbiological safety of food as well as the more traditional aspects of food as a source of energy and essential nutrients. Its focus is on nutrition in industrialised countries, where nutritional deficiencies are less of an issue than the role of diet in causing and preventing chronic disease and maintaining good health throughout the life cycle. The importance of health promotion is consequently a guiding principle throughout the book, backed up by a new section on health promotion theory [Ed.]
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Part I. Concepts and principles. 1. Changing priorities for nutrition education (diet as a means to health promotion or disease prevention; etc.) . 2. Food selection. 3. Methods of nutritional surveillance and research (methods used to establish links between diet and chronic disease; etc.) 4. Dietary guidelines and recommendations. 5. Cellular energetics. --
Part II. Energy, energy balance and obesity. 6. Introduction to energy aspects of nutrition. 7. Energy balance and its regulation. 8. Obesity (prevalence; the medical and social consequences; the causes; prevention and treatment; etc.) --
Part III. The nutrients. 9. Carbohydrates. 10. Protein and amino acids. 11. Fat. 12. Vitamins and antioxidants. 13. The minerals. --
Part IV. Variation in nutritional requirements and priorities. 14. Nutrition and the human life-cycle. 15. Nutrition as treatment (diet as a specific component of therapy; malnutrition in hospital patients; etc.). 16. Some other groups and situations. --
Part V. The safety and quality of food (consumer protection; food poisoning; functional foods; etc.)

This is the second edition of a highly regarded introductory textbook, covering all aspects of nutrition including nutritional epidemiology, social aspects of nutrition, and all the microbiological safety of food as well as the more traditional aspects of food as a source of energy and essential nutrients. Its focus is on nutrition in industrialised countries, where nutritional deficiencies are less of an issue than the role of diet in causing and preventing chronic disease and maintaining good health throughout the life cycle. The importance of health promotion is consequently a guiding principle throughout the book, backed up by a new section on health promotion theory [Ed.]

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