Williams' Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy | 
 enlarge | Author: Staci Nix
Publisher: Mosby
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 85646
Media: Paperback
Edition: 12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 720
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 1
ISBN: 0323026028
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.854
EAN: 9780323026024
ASIN: 0323026028
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
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Condition: Has light rippling on first few pages, good & clean otherwise, no markings, sealed CD
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Product Description
New author Staci Nix brings this market-leading textbook a fresh perspective and a wider scope. Nix keeps the appealing style and content of earlier editions but brings in new ideas - plus a healthy portion of practical insight gained from years of clinical experience. The book follows a logical organization, presenting basic concepts in Part 1, applying that content to specific demographic groups in Part 2, exploring the more specific roles of community nutrition and health promotion in Part 3, and finally focusing on nutrition as related to selected disease processes in Part 4.
- Engaging design is a hallmark of this popular text, with colorful openers, illustrations, boxes, tables, and textual presentations.
- Clinical Applications and For Further Focus boxes highlight hot topics, and analyze a particular concept or trend in depth.
- Clinical Applications boxes provide case studies to focus attention on related patient care problems.
- Key Concepts and Key Terms condense critical information into easy-to-find boxes.
- Each chapter in Part 4 includes diet therapy guidelines that include various recommendations, restrictions, and sample diets for major clinical conditions.
- Chapter summaries put content into perspective - the "big picture" of nutrition.
- Challenge Questions use true/false, multiple-choice, and matching formats to test students' understanding of chapter content.
- Critical Thinking Questions challenge students to analyze, apply, and combine various concepts.
- Content threads - features shared with other Elsevier titles - help to streamline the learning process. These include a reader-friendly approach, attractive cover design, Key Concepts, Critical Thinking questions, Chapter Challenge Questions, Key Terms boxes, and boxes devoted to special content.
- Cultural Considerations boxes point out the influence of a patient's background on his or her dietary intake.
- The most up-to-date Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) information has been integrated throughout the text, including the newest data concerning energy, carbohydrates, fiber, fat, fatty acids, cholesterol, protein, and amino acids, as well as the brand NEW 2004 DRIs for water and electrolytes.
- Coverage of hot topics and trends is expanded, including genetics, syndrome X, high-protein/low-carbohydrate diets, the increased incidence of type 2 diabetes, and antioxidants.
- Key websites and resources are recommended for further study and research, offering access to in-depth information and updated content.
- Up-to-date information enhances discussions in many chapters, including content on the role of nutrition during pregnancy and childhood, the resulting effects on population and age distribution, alternative means of agriculture, weight management, drug interactions, and much more.
- The Cultural Dietary Patterns and Religious Dietary Practices appendix is extensively revised to include key food sources for a wide variety of cultural, ethnic, and religious groups.
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 Too many glitches November 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
While I do not object to the descriptions of other reviewers, I have to disagree about the overall evaluation. There are too many oddities and unclear descriptions and graphs. For example: in the classification of carbohydrates in chapter 2, the table (2-1) does not line up with the text in terms of the treatment of fiber. Many will be surprised to learn that athletes do not really need any extra protein (chapter 16). The energy pathway graphics for diabetes in chapter 20 has arrows that point off to nothing and is very confused (using the same type of icon to represent processes and effects, for example). For that matter, the entire discussion of management of diabetes would be near useless for anyone actually trying to understand how to help a patient. It has too many platitudes about various good things that should be done, without any explanation of why those things are hard to do.
More fundamentally, the book often presents conclusions without explaining (to some degree) the underlying mechanisms. It also (as in the protein discussion regarding calcium loss with excessive protein intake) indicates that some effect can occur, without indicating the any quantitative information about when it will start to occur and how much of the effect occurs.
 Phenomenal!! March 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was discovered AFTER I graduated and received my license in June, 2006. This book is just perfect for the LPN. I didn't understand nutrition...learning it in school was a nightmare, but later, now that I have no pressure from class, I can read at my leisure. It gives the origin of names, which makes things easier to remember, and it can be correlated to nursing because it is really a nursing text. I actually began to understand how and why medications were given for certain conditions and also understood the nature of diseases better through this wonderful text. I wish my professor chose this text over what we already used. Whether you are a student studying from another text or an RN, this is the book to get. It goes straight to the point without all of the nonsense!
Detailed, clinical information in a readable form October 10, 1998
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is a nursing textbook, with detailed, clinical information; however, it is very readable and has many helpful charts and definitions. It covers basic nutrition, nutrition through the life cycle, and community nutrition & health. A long section on clinical nutrition covers diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, renal disease, and surgery. I have used it for personal health and nutrition questions and problems and found it very helpful, e.g., the function of potassium in the body. I found the textbook format helpful rather than bothersome.
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