Nutrition and Food

This dictionary offers jargon-free entries on food, nutrition, diet, and health that clearly explain even the most technical of nutritional terms. From abalone to zymogens, its coverage spans types of food (including both everyday and little-known foods), nutritional information, vitamins, minerals, and key scientific areas including metabolism and genomics. This new edition includes expanded coverage of food safety and relevant organisations, and of the nutritional information included for many foodstuffs.

Thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect the major advances over the past decade, the CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition concisely defines hundreds of terms used in nutrition science. This second edition also includes new sections on mitochondrial diseases, effects of infant nutrition on diseases later in life, new dietary guidelines and recommendations for nutrient uptakes, newly discovered hormones, new herbal remedies, and drugs used for managing chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Alphabetizing, summarizing, and illustrating key information for easy reference, this book provides quick answers for physicians, nurses, dietitians, physical therapists, pharmacists, and students.

In print for more than 50 years, KRAUSE'S FOOD & NUTRITION THERAPY has been recognized internationally as the most authoritative text on nutrition. This new edition continues its tradition of providing the most comprehensive and up-to-date content available today. New chapters on medical nutrition therapy for psychiatric disease and developmental disorders spotlight the advances made in these areas. Extensive appendices, tables, illustrations, figures, and clinical insight boxes give practical hands-on procedures and clinical tools with the most current information, including brand-new guidelines on food intake and physical activity, and highlight the inclusion of the new food guide pyramid, MyPyramid, to use in everyday practice. Edited by two leading experts in nutrition, L. Kathleen Mahan and Sylvia Escott-Stump, and written by nationally recognized contributors to ensure that all information is comprehensive and current. Hundreds of full-color illustrations bring nutrition therapy to life and provide a realistic representation of clinical practice.