Clinical Nutrition For Dummies

Learn to:

Appreciate the relationship between food and a healthybody
Navigate nutrition across the lifecycle
Change your diet for maximum health
Score your highest in your clinical nutrition course
The complete and easy-to-use guide to clinicalnutrition

Whether you’re a student of clinical nutrition or anutrition enthusiast, this book has what you need! Dive right in todiscover the chemical and functional components of food, how toassess nutrition, details on nutrition throughout one’slifespan, and more. Open up this comprehensive resource to getstarted mastering your clinical nutrition course!

An apple a day — find out how proper nutrition can be apowerful preventative tool and how to improve your diet
You are what you eat — discover how the foods you eat canincrease or decrease your risk of developing the most commonillnesses and diseases
Observing obesity — understand the ramifications ofobesity for your health
Discussing diabetes — get the facts on diabetes,including the dietary changes that can keep the disease at bay
Those organs are major — uncover how nutrition affectsbody systems, from the cardiovascular system to the endocrine,pulmonary, and excretory systems
Nutrition for life — find out how to ensure that you getproper nutrition at each stage of life
Modifying health behaviors — figure out how toeffectively communicate health information to spur others to adopthealthier behaviors

Open the book and find:

A primer on general nutrition and worldwide wellness
The lowdown on the major organ systems
Details on nutrition during pregnancy
How to manage nutrition throughout the different stages oflife
Tips on modifying health behaviors
How diet plays into disease prevention
Ten careers for students of clinical nutrition