Dietetics & Nutrition

This academic encyclopedia focuses on social and policy aspects of food production, safety, regulation, labeling, marketing, distribution, and consumption. It explores the topic of food across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas including business, consumerism, marketing, and environmentalism.

It presents the latest understanding on a wide range of nutrition-related topics including food safety, weight management, vitamins, bioengineering of foods, plant based diet and raw foods among others. New articles include: organic food, biofortification, nutritional labeling, and the effect of religious customs on diet.

900 alphabetically arranged entries cover topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment. The encyclopedia covers all major health professions, including nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy and more.

A three-volume survey of food and its place in human culture and society, presented through 600 alphabetically sorted entries. Features multidisciplinary coverage of such topics as comfort food, ethnicity and food, medieval banquets, and nutrient composition, among many others. Includes photographs, illustrations, sidebars, recipes, menus, and timelines.

This comprehensive guide sheds light on the latest science behind food allergies and intolerances as well as practical suggestions for their management. Features: * The science behind food allergies and food intolerances and how these two types of reactions differ. * The role of elimination diets and challenge protocols in identifying food sensitivities. * Symptoms, diagnosis and management of 24 foods and food components known to cause adverse reactions, including the "top ten" * Milk * Egg * Wheat * Corn * Peanuts * Soy * Tree Nuts * Shellfish * Fish

Multicultural Handbook of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics is the must have practical resource for dietitians, nutritionists and students working with both well settled but also recently migrated ethnic groups.
Written by a team of authors drawn from the British Dietetic Association's Specialist Multicultural Nutrition Group the book provides in-depth information to equip the reader in the provision of nutrition advice to minority groups. Spanning a broad range of cultural groups the book seeks to consider religious and cultural requirements in relation to traditional diets; research on migration studies and chronic disease states; and nutrition and dietetic treatment in relation to key chronic diseases.

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