| Description |
1 online resource (760 pages) |
| Contents |
CHAPTER 1: AN ECONUTRITION APPROACH TO HEALTH -- PART 1: Your professional toolkit -- CHAPTER 2: THE TOOLKIT FOR NUTRITION PRACTICE -- CHAPTER 3: EVALUATING THE RELIABILITY OF NUTRITION INFORMATION -- PART 2: Food systems -- CHAPTER 4: FOOD SYSTEMS AND SECURITY -- CHAPTER 5: FOOD PROCESSING -- CHAPTER 6: FOOD SAFETY: REGULATION, RISK ANALYSIS AND FOOD CHEMICALS -- CHAPTER 7: FOOD SAFETY: MICROBIOLOGICAL RISKS -- PART 3: Food, nutrients and other bioactive food components -- CHAPTER 8: FOOD GROUPS AND DIETS -- CHAPTER 9: FOOD DIGESTION -- CHAPTER 10: MACRONUTRIENTS: PROTEINS -- CHAPTER 11: MACRONUTRIENTS: FATS -- CHAPTER 12: MACRONUTRIENTS: CARBOHYDRATES -- CHAPTER 13: MACRONUTRIENTS: FOOD ENERGY -- CHAPTER 14: MACRONUTRIENTS: WATER -- CHAPTER 15: ALCOHOL -- CHAPTER 16: MICRONUTRIENTS: VITAMINS -- CHAPTER 17: MICRONUTRIENTS: MINERALS -- CHAPTER 18: PHYTONUTRIENTS AS BIOACTIVE FOOD COMPONENTS -- CHAPTER 19: FOOD-BASED GUIDANCE SYSTEMS -- PART 4: Nutrition across the life-course -- CHAPTER 20: PREGNANCY AND LACTATION -- CHAPTER 21: INFANCY, CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE -- CHAPTER 22: ADULTS AND THE LATER YEARS -- PART 5: Nutrition assessment, monitoring and surveillance -- CHAPTER 23: ASSESSING AND EVALUATING NUTRITIONAL STATUS, DIETS AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY -- CHAPTER 24: NUTRITION MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE -- PART 6: Food, the environmentand society -- CHAPTER 25: NUTRITIONAL ECONOMICS -- CHAPTER 26: SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND NUTRITION PRACTICE -- CHAPTER 27: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON FOOD AND NUTRITION -- CHAPTER 28: UNDERSTANDING FOOD AND NUTRITION FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES -- CHAPTER 29: INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION AND HEALTH -- PART 7: Nutritional biology and ecohealth disorders -- CHAPTER 30: NUTRITIONAL BIOLOGY -- CHAPTER 31: ECOHEALTH DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 32: DISORDERED SYSTEM FUNCTIONS -- CHAPTER 33: DISORDERED ORGAN FUNCTIONS -- CHAPTER 34: MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 35: FOOD AND HEALTH: LIFELONG LEARNING AND ACTION -- ACRONYMNS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- Pic section -- INDEX |
| Summary |
A comprehensive introduction to human nutrition, setting it in the context of food systems and health across the lifespan. This leading text has been totally rewritten for this fourth edition to reflect the new imperatives of food security in the context of climate change |
| Notes |
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Subject |
Food -- Analysis
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Food -- Australia
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Food -- New Zealand
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Nutrition -- Requirements
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Nutrition -- Australia
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Nutrition -- New Zealand
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wahlqvist, Mark L, editor
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Gallegos, Danielle, editor
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| ISBN |
9781000257113 |
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