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Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy [Hardcover]

Sue Rodwell Williams (Author)

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Includes Cultural Considerations boxes that point out the influence of a patient's background on his or her dietary intake --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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BASIC NUTRITION AND DIET THERAPY, 10th Edition, provides a handle learning and reference manual for support personnel in health care. This new edition reflects the changing science of nutrition, the increasing cultural diversity in our population, and the growing general interest in nutrition. The text assumes a limited background in nutrition-related sciences, so basic concepts are carefully explained when introduced.
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Amazon.com: 4.3 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Detailed, clinical information in a readable form, Oct 9 1998
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This review is from: Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy (Hardcover)
This is a nursing textbook, with detailed, clinical information; however, 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 personal 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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Too many glitches, Nov 11 2007
By John Nordin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Williams' Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy (Paperback)
While 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 point 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 actually trying to understand how to help a patient. It has too many platitudes about various good 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 information about when it will start to occur and how much of the effect occurs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal!!, Mar 5 2007
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This review is from: Williams' Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy (Paperback)
This book was discovered AFTER I graduated and received my license in June, 2006. This book is just perfect for the LPN. I didn't understand 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 easier to remember, and it can be correlated to nursing because it is really a nursing text. I actually began to understand 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 straight to the point without all of the nonsense!
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