| Description |
ix, 407 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| 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 |
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Reference blood values for nutritional assessment -- Normal reference values for urine -- Sugar content of selected foods -- Glycemic index and glycemic load of selected foods -- Dietary fiber content of selected foods -- Alcohol content of selected beverages -- Cholesterol content of selected foods -- Total fat and fatty acids content of selected foods -- Caffeine content of selected foods -- Sodium content of selected foods -- Nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners -- Fat replacers (substitutes) -- Phytochemicals in foods -- Dietary supplements -- Composition of milk and selected formulas for infant feeding -- Selected nutritional products for children -- Proprietary formulas for enteral nutrition -- Composition of oral and intravenous electrolyte solutions -- Amino acid solutions for parenteral nutrition -- Nutrition therapy in inborn errors of metabolism -- Drug interactions with foods and nutrients -- Common foodborne pathogens -- Common prefixes, suffixes, and symbols -- Common abbreviations in nutrition and the medical records -- Sources of nutrition information |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Diet therapy -- Dictionaries.
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Nutrition -- Dictionaries.
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Nutrition -- English.
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Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
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Diet Therapy.
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionary.
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| Author |
Claudio, Virginia Serraon, 1932-
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| LC no. |
2004013346 |
| ISBN |
0813810027 alkaline paper |
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