Title Statements
- Full title :Nutrition and diet therapy reference dictionary / Rosalinda T. Lagua, Virginia S. Claudio.
Summary
Filling the need unmet by many of today's medical dictionaries, this fifth edition is the most comprehensive dictionary covering nutrition and diet therapy available for health care professionals.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2004.
- Edition:5th ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Blackwell Pub
- Place of Publication:Ames, Iowa
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2004.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 407 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0813810027, 9780813810027
- oclc:ocm55633523
- LC Classification:RM217
- Dewey Decimal:613.2/03
Table of Contents
Dietary reference intakes -- Tolerable upper-intake levels -- Recommended dietary standards for young adults in selected countries and FAO/WHO -- Food guide pyramid -- Food guides of selected countries -- Food labeling and nutrition -- Daily values for food labels -- Dietary guidelines for Americans -- National nutrition objectives for 2010 -- Gastrointestinal functions and absorption -- Interrelationships of carbohydrate, protein, and fat -- Roles of vitamins in metabolism -- Roles of minerals in metabolism -- Summary of selected hormones -- Weights of children from 3 months to 19 years -- Weights of adult men and women aged 20 and over -- Body mass index (adults) -- Estimation of frame size and stature -- Triceps skinfold thickness -- Mid-upper arm muscle circumference -- Estimation of energy, protein, and fluid requirements -- Interpretations and equations for assessing nutritional status -- Physical assessment of nutritional status -- Biochemical assessment of nutritional status -- Reference values for serum lipids.
Reference blood values for nutritional assessment -- Normal reference values for urine -- Sugar content of selected foods -- Glycemic index and glycemic load of s…
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