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Nutrition for Health and Health Care (with InfoTrac 1-Semester Printed Access Card)
Nutrition for Health and Health Care (with InfoTrac  1-Semester Printed Access Card)

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Authors: Ellie Whitney, Linda Kelly Debruyne, Kathryn Pinna, Sharon Rady Rolfes
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Discount Category: Book

Selling Price: $145.95
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Customer Ratings: 5.0 out of 5 stars 5 comments

Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 816
Shipping Weight (pounds): 3.4
Dimensions (inch): 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.1

ISBN: 0495125156
Dewey Decimal Number: 612.3
EAN: 9780495125150

Publication Date: July 25, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Product Description
NUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE, Third Edition is designed for the clinical nutrition and/or diet therapy nutrition course, taught at both two- and four-year colleges and universities, in departments of Nursing, Nutrition, and Dietetics. It covers both the basic "normal" nutrition concepts, including metabolism, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, and life cycle, followed by chapters on "clinical" topics organized by organ systems, linking nutrition to different disease states, such as diabetes, renal disease, and liver disorders. The text is full of supportive pedagogy, from review sections to case studies and quantitative activities. There are also new review questions to help students prepare for the NCLEX exam. Plus, beyond the text, there are a number of supplementary materials, including the Instructor Resource CD-ROM with PowerPoint lecture slides and text images, Diet Analysis+ 8.0, and Web support for online teaching.


Customer Comments:

5 out of 5 stars no complaints   September 18, 2008
This book came brand new in plastic wrap with the access code for the website. It was shipped in the exact amount of time.


5 out of 5 stars Nutrition for Health & HealthCare   July 30, 2008
I was very happy with the book. It came in a timely manner and was exactly what I expected at the right price.


4 out of 5 stars Great Resource   September 27, 2007
I originally bought this for a class and sold it back at the end of the semester. I soon realized that I wanted a nutrition book for reference purposes and after searching around, ended up buying another copy! I am a nursing student and find myself flipping through the text when I need a nutrition question answered or if I want to calculate nurtitional info. Get this book if you're looking for a solid, easy to understand nutrition text.


5 out of 5 stars This is a keeper that's why it has a good resell value.   March 21, 2007
 2 out of 2 found this comment useful.

This is a really good nutrition book. You may find it useful to keep, if you plan on doing a good job of teaching "nutrition and diet teaching" to a patient. In nursing clinicals you will find yourself responsible for teaching diabetic diets, heart healthy diets, etc... Also you will want to teach why any one of these diets are important for the patient to know and practice. This is the book to help you do it.


5 out of 5 stars The Very Best Nutrition Book   March 5, 2004
 7 out of 7 found this comment useful.

I own other nutrition books, and this is my favorite! In nursing school, my nutrition instructor, who was a registered dietitician with many years of experience, said that this was the best nutrition book on the market. Compared to the other books I have seen, I would agree. It is a wealth of information and includes both American and Canadian guidelines. There is a wonderful food composition table appendix included in the book that is very thorough nutritionally. The book covers carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and amino acids, digestion and absorption, metabolism and energy balance, overweight, underweight, and weight control, vitamins, water and minerals, nutrition through lifespan: pregnancy and infancy, childhood and adolescence, later adulthood, and many chapters on nutrition for health care issues such as renal failure, and diabetes mellitus. If I were not a nurse, I would want to own this book just for my own personal reference. I would advise anyone, whether in health care or not, to pick up a copy of this book.