Williams' Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy - Binder Ready , 16th Edition

Key Features

• 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 to this Edition

• 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.

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Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Staci Nix McIntosh, MS, RD, CD, Assistant Professor, Division of Nutrition, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT