Home Textbooks LPN Threads TEACH Evolve Select VCE Evolve Reach Evolve Apply Evolve Resources and Courses
textbook link



NEW EDITION!
Williams' Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy,
13th Edition
Staci Nix, MS, RD, CD
October 2008 | 608 pp., 180 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-323-05199-6

 Request Button

This market-leading text provides coverage of the information students need to know about nutrition by illustrating the importance nutrition has on patients in today’s diverse population. Written in a clear, conversational style, the book begins with the fundamental concepts of nutrition and then applies those concepts to diverse demographic groups in different stages of life.

   
 

 

NEW TO THIS EDITION

  • Assessment tools in the text include the Mini Mental State Examination, PAR-Q (Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire), body composition measurement tools, and tools for energy requirement calculations.
  • Drug-Nutrient Interaction boxes highlight potential adverse effects of specific medications.
  • More than 50 new illustrations include more age and culturally diverse images, as well as more illustrations of disease states.
  • Updated statistics on diseases and conditions illustrate emerging trends and hot topics such as obesity and supplement use.
  • Updated Choose Your Foods: Exchange Lists for Diabetes in the appendix includes new content for culturally diverse populations.

 

OUTSTANDING FEATURES

  • Clinical Applications and For Further Focus boxes highlight hot topics and analyze concepts and trends in depth.
  • Case studies in clinical care chapters focus attention on related patient care problems.
  • Key Concepts and Key Terms condense critical information into easy-to-find boxes.
  • Diet therapy guidelines include recommendations, restrictions, and sample diets for a number of major clinical conditions.
  • Cultural Considerations boxes discuss how a patient’s culture can affect nutritional concepts in practice.
  • Challenge questions use true/false, multiple-choice, and matching formats to test students’ understanding of chapter content.
  • Critical thinking questions challenge students to analyze, apply, and combine concepts.
  • Chapter summaries put content into perspective in terms of the “big picture” in nutrition.
  • Internet-based research and learning is emphasized and expanded throughout the text, citing key websites.
  • Useful appendixes include information on cholesterol content, fiber content, cultural and religious dietary patterns, and more.
  • Mosby’s NUTRITRAC Nutrition Analysis and Weight Management CD offers the perfect clinical practice tool, letting you create customized personal profiles and analyze food intake and energy output — by using a database of more than 3,000 foods and more than 150 sporting, recreational, and occupational activities.
  • Unique! Content threads share features with other LPN/LVN titles from Elsevier for a consistent learning experience.

 


Request
** staging **