Abstract: A comprehensive reference text for college nutrition students, dietitians, clinical nutritionists, and other health professionals presents detailed, authoritative, colorfully-illustrated material on a variety of practical areas involving interactions between nutrition and health. Topics addressed by the 25 text chapters include: nutrition-health interaction concepts; diet planning guides; the characteristics and requirements of each of the major nutrietn classes; nutritional needs at different life stages; nutrient digestion, absorption, and in vivo transport; weight control; food safety; nutritional assessment and care strategies; hospital dietetics; nutritional and drug therapy; nutritional intervention in stress due to surgery, infection, and burns; nutritional interactions with system and organ disorders (gastrointestinal tract; liver; exocrine pancreas; gallbladder; heart and blood vessels; kidneys); and nutritional care of cancer patients. Ancillary data and information (including food composition data, RDA's, biochemical pathways, supplements, and enteral formulas) are presented in 12 appendices.

Abstract: This college textbook presents the core information of an introductory nutrition course. Based on the principles of chemistry and molecular biology, chapters 1-11 describe the nutrients and how the body handles them. The remaining seven chapters illustrate how nutrition influences people's lives. Several of these chapters reflect the trend toward promoting optimal health through optimal nutrition. Topics include: recommended nutrient intakes and diet-planning guides; digestion, absorption, and transport; metabolism; vitamins and minerals; energy balance and weight control; life cycle nutrition (pregnancy, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood); nutrition and disease prevention; consumer concerns; and domestic and world hunger.

This comprehensive introductory text emphasises underlying chemical processes. It addresses topics such as the nutrition care process, diet therapy organised by organ systems/disease states, and life cycle nutrition.