Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy [With CDROM]

by Sue Rodwell Williams

Book Overview

This renowned text, now in its eighth edition, presents normal nutrition and then explains how to apply nutritional concepts in the community and clinical environments. The easy-to-follow format... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323005691
• ISBN13: 9780323005692
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 465 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Phenomenal!!

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

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.