Modern nutrition in health and disease /

Modern nutrition in health and disease / edited by Robert S. Goodhart and Maurice E. Shils. - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lea & Febiger, c1980 - xiv, 1370 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The foundations of nutrition -- Part II. Safety and adequacy of the food supply -- Part III. Interrelations of nutrients and metabolism -- Part IV. Malnutrition -- Part V. Nutrition during Physiologic stress -- Part VI. Nutrition if the prevention and treatment of disease.

Chapters cover energy and specific dietary components. The role of nutrition in relation to integrated biologic systems is reviewed. Methods of nutritional assessment are discussed as are dietary and nutritional interrelations with diseases.

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