This widely acclaimed book is a complete, authoritative reference on nutrition and its role in contemporary medicine, dietetics, nursing, public health, and public policy. Distinguished international experts provide in-depth information on historical landmarks in nutrition, specific dietary components, nutrition in integrated biologic systems, nutritional assessment through the life cycle, nutrition in various clinical disorders, and public health and policy issues.
Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, Eleventh Edition, offers coverage of nutrition's role in disease prevention, international nutrition issues, public health concerns, the role of obesity in a variety of chronic illnesses, genetics as it applies to nutrition, and areas of major scientific progress relating nutrition to disease.
Product details
- Format Hardback | 1648 pages
- Dimensions 213 x 276 x 58.42mm | 3,697g
- Publication date 21 Jan 2013
- Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
- Publication City/Country Philadelphia, United States
- Language English
- Edition statement 11th edition
- Illustrations note 530
- ISBN10 1605474614
- ISBN13 9781605474618
- Bestsellers rank 414,000