Nutrition for Health and Healthcare by Linda Kelly DeBruyne, Kathryn Pinna

By Linda Kelly DeBruyne, Kathryn Pinna

Present, useful info in a real-world context for destiny nurses and wellbeing and fitness care execs. Designed for the medical nutrients and/or vitamin remedy food direction, food FOR well-being AND health and wellbeing CARE is a depended on textual content that demonstrates the $64000 function of meals to destiny nurses and overall healthiness care execs of their destiny careers. The textual content starts off through masking uncomplicated foodstuff strategies and proceeds with scientific issues equipped by way of organ structures, linking foodstuff to varied ailment states, equivalent to diabetes, renal sickness, and liver issues. each one bankruptcy contains useful info, present examine, and medical perform directions for addressing nutrients matters and incorporating meals into care plans. worthwhile supplementations accompany this article to aid teachers arrange for sophistication and to aid scholars achieve their direction.

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Present, functional details in a real-world context for destiny nurses and health and wellbeing care pros. Designed for the medical foodstuff and/or nutrition treatment meals direction, meals FOR well-being AND future health CARE is a depended on textual content that demonstrates the $64000 function of meals to destiny nurses and future health care execs of their destiny careers.

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Sometimes food is used to influence or impress someone. For example, a business executive invites a prospective new client out to dinner in hopes of edging out the competition. In each case, for whatever the purpose, food plays an integral part of the social interaction. Emotional State Some people cannot eat when they are emotionally upset. Others may eat in response to a variety of emotional stimuli—for example, to relieve boredom or depression or to calm anxiety. A depressed person may choose to eat rather than to call a friend.

Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. 5 Review Notes t A person selects foods for many different reasons. t Food choices influence health—both positively and negatively. Individual food selec- tions neither make nor break a diet’s healthfulness, but the balance of foods selected over time can make an important difference to health.

Kcalorie (energy) control: management of food energy intake. nutrient density: a measure of the nutrients a food provides relative to the energy it provides. The more nutrients and the fewer kcalories, the higher the nutrient density. empty-kcalorie foods: a popular term used to denote foods that contribute energy but lack protein, vitamins, and minerals. nutrient profiling: ranking foods based on their nutrient composition. moderation: the provision of enough, but not too much, of a substance.

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