Williams’ Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy
Williams’ Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy Books
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New author Staci Nix brings this market-leading textbook a fresh perspective and a wider scope. Nix keeps the appealing style and content of earlier editions but brings in new thoughts – plus a healthy part of matter-of-fact insight gained from years of clinical experience. The book follows a logical organization, presenting basic concepts in Part 1, applying that content to specific demographic groups in Part 2, exploring the more specific roles of community nutrition and health promotion in Part 3, and finally focusing on nutrition as correlated to selected disease processes in Part 4. * Engaging design is a token of this well loved text, with colorful openers, illustrations, boxes, tables, and textual presentations. * Clinical Applications and For Further Focus boxes highlight hot topics, and question a particular concept or trend in depth. * Clinical Applications boxes provide case studies to focus attention on correlated patient care problems. * Key Concepts and Key Terms condense critical in rank into simple-to-find boxes. * Each chapter in Part 4 includes diet therapy guidelines that include various recommendations, restrictions, and sample diets for major clinical conditions. * Chapter summaries place content into perspective – the “huge picture” of nutrition. * Challenge Questions use right/fake, multiple-choice, and matching formats to test students’ understanding of chapter content. * Critical Thought Questions challenge students to question, apply, and combine various concepts.
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the text gets the vital in rank across without all the fluff. easily understood language and excellent backup resources.
Rating: 5 / 5
This was a required text book,so I had small choice but to buy it. It is rather basic, but may possibly be a very helpful starting top for someone interested in nutrition, on an introductory basis.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book was exposed AFTER I graduated and received my license in June, 2006. This book is just perfect for the LPN. I didn’t know nutrition…learning it in school was a nightmare, but later, now that I have no pressure from class, I can read at my leisure. It gives the origin of names, which makes things simpler to remember, and it can be correlated to nursing because it is really a nursing text. I really started to know how and why medications were given for certain conditions and also understood the nature of diseases better through this wonderful text. I wish my professor chose this text over what we already used. Whether you are a student studying from another text or an RN, this is the book to get. It goes honest to the top without all of the nonsense!
Rating: 5 / 5
Even as I do not object to the descriptions of other reviewers, I have to disagree about the overall evaluation. There are too many oddities and unclear descriptions and graphs. For example: in the classification of carbohydrates in chapter 2, the table (2-1) does not line up with the text in terms of the treatment of fiber. Many will be surprised to learn that athletes do not really need any extra protein (chapter 16). The energy pathway graphics for diabetes in chapter 20 has arrows that top off to nothing and is very confused (using the same type of icon to represent processes and effects, for example). For that matter, the entire discussion of management of diabetes would be near useless for anyone really trying to know how to help a patient. It has too many platitudes about various excellent things that should be done, without any explanation of why those things are hard to do.
More fundamentally, the book often presents conclusions without explaining (to some degree) the underlying mechanisms. It also (as in the protein discussion regarding calcium loss with excessive protein intake) indicates that some effect can occur, without indicating the any quantitative in rank about when it will start to occur and how much of the effect occurs.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is a nursing textbook, with detailed, clinical in rank; but, it is very readable and has many helpful charts and definitions. It covers basic nutrition, nutrition through the life cycle, and community nutrition & health. A long section on clinical nutrition covers diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, renal disease, and surgery. I have used it for private health and nutrition questions and problems and found it very helpful, e.g., the function of potassium in the body. I found the textbook format helpful rather than bothersome.
Rating: 4 / 5