Nutrition and Dietetics | 5th Edition

Now in its fifth edition, Nutrition and Dietetics continues to be the leading textbook, focused on fundamentals of the subject—Role of Nutrients, Balanced Diet, Diet Therapy for Cardiovascular, Kidney, and Liver Diseases; Food Safety Measures. The text has been substantially revised to include RDA 2020, EAR 2020, importance of oral health in nutrition, newer concepts about food and diet patterns including paleo, keto diets, and diets for combating COVID-19. Designed primarily for branches of the undergraduate program in Home Science and allied disciplines, as well as students of nursing and paramedical courses, those pursuing various branches of catering technology and hospitality management, and coaches in the field of sports, etc., this book will also be useful for practicing doctors. Salient Features : 1) Simple & lucid explanation of all topics interspersed with Indian case-studies and enriched pedagogy 2) New section on—importance of oral health in nutrition, diets for thyroid problems, PCOD, GERD, psychological disorders, and cancers, enable students understand the health and nutritional problems associated with this disease as well as the strategies for treatment 3) The Appendices and Glossary serve as ready reckoners for readers and make it a valuable reference guide 4) Pedagogy includes o 10 Appendices on Statistics and Guidelines like RDA Exchange List, Standard weights, and measures, ICMR Data on Sports Nutrition, Statistical Data on Malnutrition o 250+ figures and tables o 175+ Review Questions o 100+ Objective-Type Questions.