Nutrition health and disease : a lifespan approach /

• Main Author: Langley-Evans, S. C. (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Ames, Iowa : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.
• Edition: Second edition.
• Subjects: Nutrition > Textbooks.; MEDICAL > Physiology.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.; Nutrition.; Medical.; Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.; Growth and Development > physiology.; Nutrition Assessment.; Electronic books.; Textbooks.

Bringing together key topics in basic science, clinical nutrition, and public health, Nutrition, Health and Disease is an easy-to-read, student-friendly textbook which clearly demonstrates how the body's demand for nutrients changes throughout life, and thus the variety of ways in which nutriti...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to lifespan nutrition
• Before life begins
• Pregnancy
• Fetal nutrition and disease in later life
• Lactation and infant feeding
• Nutrition and childhood
• Nutrition and adolescence
• The adult years
• Nutrition, ageing, and the elderly.