Clinical Nutrition For Dummies Paperback - 2014 - 1st Edition

From the rear cover

Learn to:

• Appreciate the relationship between food and a healthy body
• Navigate nutrition across the lifecycle
• Change your diet for maximum health
• Score your highest in your clinical nutrition course

The complete and easy-to-use guide to clinical nutrition

Whether you're a student of clinical nutrition or a nutrition enthusiast, this book has what you need! Dive right in to discover the chemical and functional components of food, how to assess nutrition, details on nutrition throughout one's lifespan, and more. Open up this comprehensive resource to get started mastering your clinical nutrition course!

• An apple a day -- find out how proper nutrition can be a powerful preventative tool and how to improve your diet
• You are what you eat -- discover how the foods you eat can increase or decrease your risk of developing the most common illnesses and diseases
• Observing obesity -- understand the ramifications of obesity for your health
• Discussing diabetes -- get the facts on diabetes, including the dietary changes that can keep the disease at bay
• Those organs are major -- uncover how nutrition affects body systems, from the cardiovascular system to the endocrine, pulmonary, and excretory systems
• Nutrition for life -- find out how to ensure that you get proper nutrition at each stage of life
• Modifying health behaviors -- figure out how to effectively communicate health information to spur others to adopt healthier behaviors

Open the book and find:

• A primer on general nutrition and worldwide wellness
• The lowdown on the major organ systems
• Details on nutrition during pregnancy
• How to manage nutrition throughout the different stages of life
• Tips on modifying health behaviors
• How diet plays into disease prevention
• Ten careers for students of clinical nutrition