NEW! Completely updated content incorporates Dietary Guidelines 2010 and Healthy People 2020 information throughout the text to ensure you have the most up-to-date content available. NEW! Colorful and engaging design makes key content easy to find and more engaging with graphic artwork and vivid images of food. NEW! Updated illustrations visually clarify important concepts and reflect current clinical practice. NEW! Integrated assets in Pageburst version: ADA Nutrition Care Process Case Studies - Answers Challenge Questions and Answers Critical Thinking Question Answers Growth Charts and Food Composition Table Appendixes 1 & 2 Nutritrac 5.0
For concise, need-to-know coverage of the most up-to-date topics and research in nutritional care turn to Williams' Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy. This market leading text provides coverage of hot topics, emerging trends, and cutting-edge research, plus all the essentials for providing the best nutrition care. And with its conversational writing style, vivid illustrations, and wide array of reader-friendly features you can easily understand how the concepts in the book can be applied in clinical practice. - Case studies with accompanying questions for analysis in the clinical care chapters focus your attention on related patient care problems. - Cultural Considerations boxes discuss how a patient's culture can affect nutritional concepts in practice. - Clinical Applications and For Further Focus boxes highlight timely topics and analyze concepts and trends in depth. - Bulleted chapter summaries review highlights from the chapter and help you see how the chapter contributes to the book's "big picture." - Diet therapy guidelines include recommendations, restrictions, and sample diets for major clinical conditions. - Drug-Nutrient Interactions boxes highlight important safety information and cover topics such as nutritional supplements for athletics, drugs interfering with vitamin absorption, and over-the-counter weight loss aids. - Key terms and definitions clarify terminology and concepts critical to your understanding and application of the material.
- NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® case studies and question types are included in the text and on the companion Evolve website. - NEW! Easy-to-follow writing style utilizes a more lively and direct conversation tone to make material easier to understand. - NEW! Updated references reflect the studies and statistics published in the most current scientific literature. - NEW! Incorporation of the new Nutrition Care Process model grounds you in the systematic approach to providing high-quality nutrition care with regard to nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation. - NEW! Coverage of the new Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans ensures you are versed in the latest recommendations.
Case studies with accompanying questions for analysis in the clinical care chapters focus your attention on related patient care problems. Cultural Considerations boxes discuss how a patient's culture can affect nutritional concepts in practice. Clinical Applications and For Further Focus boxes highlight timely topics and analyze concepts and trends in depth. Bulleted chapter summaries review highlights from the chapter and help you see how the chapter contributes to the book's "big picture." Diet therapy guidelines include recommendations, restrictions, and sample diets for major clinical conditions. Drug-Nutrient Interactions boxes highlight important safety information and cover topics such as nutritional supplements for athletics, drugs interfering with vitamin absorption, and over-the-counter weight loss aids. Key terms and definitions clarify terminology and concepts critical to your understanding and application of the material.
- NEW! Completely updated content incorporate the recently released 2015 dietary guidelines, Healthy People objectives, nutrition labels, common weight-loss diets, FDA/CDC statistics/warnings regarding trans fatty acids, disordered eating, and more. - NEW! New chapter review questions reflect the latest NCLEX Exam format. Answers to these questions will appear in the appendix. - NEW! Rewritten chapters on clinical nutrition take a more application-based approach and feature clarified explanations, enhanced readability, a focus on the most relevant and practical information, and new topics such as energy expenditure calculations, water balance, cirrhosis complications, diet plans for diabetes, and more. - NEW! Updated Nutrition and Physical Fitness chapter written by sport dietitian Kary Woodruff reflects the latest research in the field, including new questionnaires used for exercise readiness, current recommendations for energy needs, and nutritional considerations for athletic performance. - NEW! Updated Weight Management chapter written by certified adult weight management dietitian Theresa Dvorak reflects the latest research in the field, including the role of genetics, disordered eating, treatments for obesity, and more.
- NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® case studies and question types are included in the text and on the companion Evolve website. - NEW! Easy-to-follow writing style utilizes a more lively and direct conversation tone to make material easier to understand. - NEW! Updated references reflect the studies and statistics published in the most current scientific literature. - NEW! Incorporation of the new Nutrition Care Process model grounds you in the systematic approach to providing high-quality nutrition care with regard to nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation. - NEW! Coverage of the new Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans ensures you are versed in the latest recommendations.
Case studies with accompanying questions for analysis in the clinical care chapters focus your attention on related patient care problems. Cultural Considerations boxes discuss how a patient's culture can affect nutritional concepts in practice. Clinical Applications and For Further Focus boxes highlight timely topics and analyze concepts and trends in depth. Bulleted chapter summaries review highlights from the chapter and help you see how the chapter contributes to the book's "big picture." Diet therapy guidelines include recommendations, restrictions, and sample diets for major clinical conditions. Drug-Nutrient Interactions boxes highlight important safety information and cover topics such as nutritional supplements for athletics, drugs interfering with vitamin absorption, and over-the-counter weight loss aids. Key terms and definitions clarify terminology and concepts critical to your understanding and application of the material. NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® case studies and question types are included in the text and on the companion Evolve website. NEW! Easy-to-follow writing style utilizes a more lively and direct conversation tone to make material easier to understand. NEW! Updated references reflect the studies and statistics published in the most current scientific literature. NEW! Incorporation of the new Nutrition Care Process model grounds you in the systematic approach to providing high-quality nutrition care with regard to nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation. NEW! Coverage of the new Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans ensures you are versed in the latest recommendations.
Deepen your understanding of the most important nutrition concepts with this application oriented online course. Used in conjunction with Nix: Williams' Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy, 14th Edition, Nutrition Concepts Online integrates illustrations, animations, interactive exercises, and quizzes to reinforce your comprehension and provide an exciting, interactive learning experience. Learning objectives help you focus your study on the most important nutrition basics, lifespan, community related nutrition and nutrition therapy concepts. Reading assignments highlight textbook material and provide critical thinking questions to help you read and review more efficiently. Animations bring nutrition concepts to life with visual instructions and explanations of a process or system, such as digestion. Quizzes evaluate your understanding of all the major topics covered in a particular lesson. Web based research activities, nutrient and diet analysis exercises, growth chart and diet design practice provide engaging ways to learn core topics with immediate feedback to help you identify areas needing additional study. Access to the new online version of Nutritrac Nutrition Analysis, a nutrition and weight management program, with additional tools for learning including an expanded food database of over 5,000 foods in 18 different categories and a listing of more than 150 activities Versatile modular format allows for learning online, in classrooms or in blended learning environments. Web based research activities and exercises provide engaging ways to learn core topics with immediate feedback to help students identify areas needing additional study. Case studies accompany modules challenging students to work through a realistic situation relating to module content. Discussion boards for students and instructors keep learning on track
Deepen your understanding of the most important nutrition concepts with this dynamic online course. Used in conjunction with Peckenpaugh: Nutrition Essentials and Diet Therapy, 11th Edition, Nutrition Concepts Online integrates illustrations, animations, interactive exercises, and quizzes to reinforce your comprehension and provide an exciting, interactive learning experience. Modular format enables you to supplement your learning with online lessons or work at your own pace. Learning objectives help you focus your study on the most important concepts. Reading assignments highlight textbook material and provide related questions to help you read and review more efficiently. Hundreds of interactive exercises provide an engaging way to learn core topics with immediate feedback that helps you identify areas needing additional study. Animations bring nutrition concepts to life with visual instructions or explanations of a process or system, such as digestion. A case study at the beginning of each module challenges you to work through a realistic situation that relates to the module content. Quizzes evaluate your understanding of all the major topics covered in a particular lesson. Access to the new online version of Nutritrac Nutrition Analysis 5.0 offers a nutrition and weight management program that provides additional tools for learning with an expanded food database of over 5,000 foods in 18 different categories and a listing of more than 150 activities.
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