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Understanding Nutrition

Understanding Nutrition

by David Cameron-SmithAdam Walsh Eleanor N. Whitney and others
Mixed media product
Publication Date: 26/08/2013

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Understanding Nutrition is a practical and engaging introduction to the core principles of nutrition.

Building upon Ellie Whitney and Sharon Rady Rolfes' classic text, this second Australian and New Zealand edition equips students to optimise health and wellbeing. With its focus on Australia and New Zealand, the text incorporates current nutrition guidelines, recommendations and public health nutrition issues relevant to this region of the world. This textbook is praised for consistent level and readability, and careful explanations of all key topics (including energy metabolism and other complex processes).

It opens with core nutrition topics, such as diet planning, macronutrients, vitamins and minerals, and follows with chapters on diet and health, fitness, life span nutrition and food safety. This book that connects with students - engaging them as it teaches them the basic concepts and applications of nutrition.

ISBN:
9780170222853
9780170222853
Category:
Dietetics & nutrition
Format:
Mixed media product
Publication Date:
26-08-2013
Publisher:
Cengage Learning Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
848
Dimensions (mm):
246x189x20mm
David Cameron-Smith

Professor David Cameron-Smith is Chair in Nutrition and Research Director of the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland.

He is a passionate researcher and educator, working to further how food impacts on human biology and the biochemical links between nutrients and human health.

Tim Crowe

Associate Professor Tim Crowe is a nutrition academic at Deakin University in Melbourne and teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate nutrition and dietetics programs. Tim teaches in the areas of nutritional physiology and biochemistry as well as the applied role of nutrition in disease prevention and management, particularly obesity, diabetes and cancer.

He is actively involved in several areas of nutrition research including specialised nutrition in the prevention of surgical complications; nutrition support in wound healing; and at a public health lever. Tim is also an Accredited Practising Dietician and speaks on many health topics to the public through both the media and writing for consumer publications.

Sharon Rady Rolfes

Sharon Rady Rolfes is a registered dietician nutritionist and a founding member of Nutrition and Health Associates, an information resource center that maintains a research database on more than 1,000 nutrition-related topics.

She has taught at Florida State University and coauthored several other college textbooks, including Understanding Normal and Clinical Nutrition, 10e.

In addition to writing, she serves as a consultant for various educational projects and volunteers on the board of Working Well, a community initiative dedicated to creating a healthy workforce. A member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Rolfes received her MS in nutrition and food science from Florida State University.

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