Williams' Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy

By Staci Nix

Book Overview

Williams' Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy is a market leader for a reason - it provides coverage of hot topics, emerging trends, and cutting edge research, plus all the essentials for providing the best nutrition care. You'll love it for the clear, conversational writing style and vivid illustrations that guide you from fundamental concepts of nutrition to the application of those concepts in clinical practice.

UNIQUE Content threads share features with other LPN/LVN titles from Elsevier for a consistent learning experience. Case studies in clinical care chapters focus on related patient care problems. Critical thinking questions challenge you to analyze, apply, and combine concepts. Cultural Considerations boxes discuss how a patient's culture can affect nutritional concepts in practice. Clinical Applications and For Further Focus boxes highlight hot topics and analyze concepts and trends in depth. Chapter Challenges use true/false, multiple-choice, and matching questions to test your understanding of chapter content. Key concepts, key terms, and chapter summaries help you study more effectively and master essential content. Diet therapy guidelines include recommendations, restrictions, and sample diets for a number of major clinical conditions. Further Readings and Resources in each chapter provide focused and up-to-date print, multimedia, and online resources to supplement learning. Useful appendixes include information on cholesterol content, fiber content, cultural and religious dietary patterns, and more. 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323083471
• ISBN13: 9780323083478
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.0" x 8.3"

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.