Public Health Nutrition is an essential purchase for readers interested in nutrition and dietetics.
Public health nutrition as a subject is growing immensely in importance, taking into account the real potential to reduce the burden of non-communicable chronic disease through diet.
Professionals in nutrition, dietetics, food science, medicine, community health care and many related health care areas will all find much of great use within Public Health Nutrition.
Contents:
- An overview of public health nutrition
- Nutritional epidemiology
- Assessment of nutritional status in individuals and populations
- Assessment of physical activity
- Public health nutrition strategies for intervention at the ecological level
- Public health nutrition strategies for intervention at the individual level
- Dietary guidelines
- Food choice
- Public health aspects of overnutrition
- Public health aspects of undernutrition
- Vitamin A deficiency
- Iodine and iodine-deficiency disorders
- Iron-deficiency anemias
- Fear of fatness and fad slimming diets
- Nutrition and child development
- Infant feeding
- Adverse outcomes in pregnancy : the role of folate and related B-vitamins
- Maternal nutriton, fetal programming and adult chronic disease
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diabetes mellitus
- Cancer and diet
- Disease prevention : osteoporosis and hip fracture
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