Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related Healthcare Professionals
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2017
- Category
- Nutrition, Family & General Practice, Clinical Medicine
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9783319499284
- Publish Date
- Apr 2017
- List Price
- $183.5
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Description
This second edition volume is a desktop reference guide on nutrition and its clinical implications for health and disease. Presented in a new softcover format and user-friendly style, it serves as a valuable resource of practical information on nutrition for physicians and other healthcare professionals in their daily practice. The book covers all important aspects of nutrition including basic nutritional principles, nutrition through the lifecycle and optimal nutrition patterns through all stages of development, and diet and its role in prevention, cause, and treatment of disease.
Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related Healthcare Professionalsis thoroughly updated from its predecessor,Nutrition Guide for Physiciansand provides a wide perspective of the impact that nutrition has upon medical practice and will be an indispensable resource for primary care physicians and other medical professionals.
About the authors
Norman J. Temple, professor of nutrition at Athabasca University and has published more than 60 papers, predominantly in the area of nutrition as it relates to health, and has published more than a dozen books. Currently, he is conducting collaborative research in Cape Town on the role of the changing diet in South Africa and on the pattern of chronic diseases in that country.
