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Life cycle nutrition; an evidence-based approach.


9780763738105

Life cycle nutrition; an evidence-based approach.

Ed. by Sari Edelstein and Judith Sharlin.

Jones & Bartlett

2009

532 pages

$82.95

Paperback

QP141

For graduate students, this textbook covers nutrition and the growth, development, and normal functioning of individuals in each life stage. Chapters are arranged by topic, with discussion of physiological, biochemical, sociological, and developmental factors affecting nutrition. Edelstein and Sharlin (nutrition and dietetics dietetics /di·e·tet·ics/ (-iks) the science of diet and nutrition.

di·e·tet·ics
n.
The branch of therapeutics concerned with the practical application of diet in relation to health and disease.
, Simmons College Simmons College may refer to:
  • Simmons College of Kentucky - A historically black college in Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Simmons College (Massachusetts) - a liberal arts women's college in Boston, Massachusetts.
) assemble 15 chapters by dieticians from the US who discuss epidemiologic research through the lifecycle and such subjects as media influences on eating, skipping breakfast, tobacco use, parenteral nutrition Parenteral nutrition
Nutrition supplied intravenously, thus bypassing the patient's digestive tract entirely.

Mentioned in: Electrolyte Supplements, Necrotizing Enterocolitis

parenteral nutrition 
, cancer, and dietary supplements Noun 1. dietary supplement - something added to complete a diet or to make up for a dietary deficiency
diet - a prescribed selection of foods

vitamin pill - a pill containing one or more vitamins; taken as a dietary supplement
. Case studies are included.

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