Advanced Medical Nutrition Therapy Practice (ePub)

Complete nutrition requires ingestion and absorption of vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids from protein and essentialfatty acids from fat-containing food, also food energy in the form of carbohydrate, protein, and fat. Dietary habits and choicesplay a significant role in the quality of life, health and longevity. Diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or otherorganism. The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons.Although humans are omnivores, each culture and each person holds some food preferences or some food taboos. This maybe due to personal tastes or ethical reasons. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthy. As scientific evidencecontinues to emerge showing the underlying role nutrition and diet play in preventing and treating common health issues.There's renewed emphasis by healthcare providers on delivering individualized nutrition prescriptions to patients toimprove health outcomes. This book gathers together the evidence-based guidelines and practices recommended for theprevention, management, and treatment of a variety of disease states. Proven nutrition strategies for optimizing health andcombating specific diseases - written for the advanced practice nurse. Author used his knowledge and experience innutrition and nursing practice to write an easy-to-use book that gives readers practical resources.