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Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare
A Practical Guide
- 1st Edition - November 2, 2023
- Editors: Sumantra Ray, Mariana Markell
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 0 4 0 - 1
Good nutrition is essential for health and the treatment of disease. This new handbook aims to provide students, doctors and healthcare professionals with essential information to… Read more
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Request a sales quoteGood nutrition is essential for health and the treatment of disease. This new handbook aims to provide students, doctors and healthcare professionals with essential information to apply medical nutrition theory in their everyday practice.
Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare: A Practical Guide takes a systems-based approach to medical nutrition. It includes the pathophysiology of nutrition-related disease as well as the clinical application of nutrition theory in disease management and the role of nutrition in public health. It covers the basics of physiology and biochemistry, including relevant drug-nutrient interactions.
This will be an invaluable asset for all those not already trained in clinical and public health nutrition who wish to understand more about nutrition and its role in the management and prevention of disease.
- Practical and easy to understand
- Provides a sound explanation of underlying principles
- Summarises clinically important nutritional approaches to disease management
- Covers cutting edge topics in public health
- Summary boxes of relevant drug-nutrient interactions
- Case studies and self-test questions to encourage learning
- Aligns with Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine
- An enhanced eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Any screen, Any time, Anywhere
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword 1
- Foreword 2
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Section A: Introduction to Nutrition and Health
- Chapter 1. Basic Principles of Nutrition
- Historical Background
- Definitions
- Carbohydrates
- Proteins
- Energy Turnover
- Micronutrients
- New Evidence on Vitamin D and COVID-19
- Dietary Reference Values
- Reading Labels
- Functional Foods
- Food Groups and Dietary Guidelines
- References
- Chapter 2. Basic Principles of Screening and Assessment
- Nutrition Screening and Assessment: Key Questions Example
- Key Clinical Questions
- Overview and Introduction
- What Are Nutrition Screening and Nutrition Assessment?
- Methods of Nutrition Screening
- Nutrition Assessment
- Dietary Assessment
- References
- Chapter 3. Basic Principles of Nutritional Care Pathways
- Overview and Introduction
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4. Basic Principles of Acute and Chronic Nutrition Support
- Overview and Introduction
- Principles of Nutrition Support
- Enteral Nutrition
- Intestinal Failure and Parenteral Nutrition
- Multiprofessional Working in Nutrition Support
- References
- Section B: Nutrition in Health Care Practice with Case Studies
- Chapter 5. Nutrition in Respiratory Medicine
- Overview and Introduction
- Acute Respiratory Disease
- Chronic Obstructive Respiratory Diseases
- Chronic Restrictive Respiratory Diseases
- Chronic Vascular Respiratory Diseases
- Chronic Infective Respiratory Diseases
- Chronic Genetic Respiratory Diseases
- References
- Chapter 6. Nutrition in Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Medicine
- Definition and Impact of Cardiovascular Disease
- Primary and Secondary Prevention in CVD
- Mediterranean, DASH and Low-Carb Diets
- Diet and Heart Disease
- Secondary Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease
- Diet and Cerebrovascular Disease
- Primary Prevention of Cerebrovascular Disease
- Secondary Prevention and Treatment of Cerebrovascular Disease
- Diet and Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Cardioprotective Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- References
- Chapter 7. Nutrition in Endocrine (Obesity/Diabetes) and Reproductive Medicine
- Overview of Endocrinology With Respect to Nutrition
- Obesity
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Reproductive Endocrinology
- References
- Chapter 8. Nutrition in Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Medicine
- Introduction
- Disorders of the Oesophagus
- Disorders of the Stomach
- Disorders of the Small Intestine
- Disorders of the Colon and Rectum
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
- Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- Wilson Disease
- Hereditary Haemochromatosis
- Acute Liver Failure
- Cirrhosis
- Liver Transplantation
- Parenteral Nutrition-Related Liver Disease
- Disorders of the Biliary System and Pancreas
- Summary
- Selected Key References
- References
- Chapter 9. Nutrition in Hypertension and Kidney Medicine
- Introduction
- Summary of Nutritional Issues
- Nutritional Issues as Kidney Disease Progresses
- Renal Replacement Therapy
- Post–Kidney Transplant
- Specific Nutrition Assessment in Patients With CKD
- Recommendations for Specific Kidney Diseases
- Kidney Stones
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 10. Nutrition in Musculoskeletal and Disability Medicine
- Overview of Musculoskeletal Metabolism
- Further Reading
- Chapter 11. Nutrition in Haematology and Oncology
- Introduction
- Anaemia
- Cancer Prevention
- Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 12. Nutrition in Immunology, Infection and Allergy
- Introduction
- Burden of Disease
- Pathologic and Protective Cell Populations
- Pathology
- Pathogenesis
- Approach to a Patient With Food Allergy
- Non-IgE-Mediated Food Allergy
- Assessing Acquisition of Tolerance/Partial Tolerance: Use of ‘Ladders’
- Impact of Allergy on Nutrition
- Feeding Difficulties and Restricted Diets
- Allergy Treatment
- Allergy Prevention
- Management of Food Allergy Summary
- Common Food Allergy Disorders
- References
- Section C: Nutrition and Population Health
- Chapter 13. Nutrition and Mental Health
- Overview and Introduction
- Pathophysiological Theories of Mental Disorders
- Nutritional Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders
- Giving Dietary Advice and Motivational Interviewing
- Dietary Recommendations for General and Mental Health
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 14. Nutrition in Public Health, Policy, Prevention and Implementation
- Introduction
- Introduction to Implementation Science and Behaviour Change
- Nutrition Care Strategies at a Local Level
- Capacity Building
- Conclusion
- References
- Section D: Appendix of Nutrition Toolkits
- Appendix 1. Nutrition and Clinical Science: Toolkit for Further Reading
- Introduction
- Summary of Toolkit
- Appendix 2. Weight Stigma – A Practical Guide for Clinicians
- What Is Weight Stigma?
- Concept of Bias: Conscious and Unconscious Bias
- Barriers Associated with Treating Obesity
- Outcomes/Behaviour Changes as a Result of Weight Stigma
- The Weight Set-Point Theory and Weight Stigma
- Nonverbal and Verbal Communication—Dos and Don’ts
- Public Health Messages
- Recognition of Weight Stigma Among Medical Practitioners
- How to Improve Practice
- Appendix 3. Nutrition and COVID-19: Toolkit of Emerging Evidence
- Introduction
- Origin of the Disease and Declaration of a Pandemic
- Nutrition of the Primary Prevention of COVID-19
- COVID-19 and Nutrition in Primary Care: Social Inequalities
- COVID-19 Recovery in the Community: Post Hospitalisation
- Index
- No. of pages: 384
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 2, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702080401