Food and Nutrition Throughout Life: A comprehensive overview of food and nutrition in all stages of life

ISBN-13: 9780367718107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 392 str.

Sharon Croxford; Catherine Itsiopoulos; Adrienne Forsyth

Opis

A comprehensive introduction to optimum nutrition across the lifespan and for specific populations including Indigenous groups, sports people and the disadvantaged.

Spis treści

List of figures, tables and case studies

Contributors

How to use this book

PART I: FOUNDATION KNOWLEDGE

1 Food and nutrition basics

2 Cultures, beliefs and food habits

PART II: THE LIFE STAGES

3 Preconception

4 Conception and pregnancy

5 Lactation

6 Newborn and infant (0-12 months)

7 Toddler and preschooler (1-5 years)

8 Child (6-12 years)

9 Pre-adolescent and adolescent (13-18 years)

10 Young adult (19-25 years)

11 Early and middle adult (26-60 years)

12 Older adult (61-84 years)

13 Later stage older adult (85 years and over)

PART III: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES

14 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition and health

15 New Zealand and Maori nutrition and health

16 Asia-Pacific nutrition and health

PART IV: EXTENSION KNOWLEDGE

17 Sports nutrition

18 Poverty, disadvantage and food insecurity

19 Mental health

20 Migrant health

APPENDICES

Appendix 1: Clinical signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiencies

Appendix 2: Drug interactions with foods, herbs and nutrients

Test your understanding answers

Index

O autorze

SHARON CROXFORD is an accredited practising dietitian and senior academic at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She has worked in clinical, community and food service dietetic practice in Australia and the United Kingdom.

CATHERINE ITSIOPOULOS is the founding head of the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She is an accredited practising dietitian with almost 30 years' experience in academia, research and clinical practice.

ADRIENNE FORSYTH is a dual-qualified accredited practising dietitian and accredited exercise physiologist, and is a lecturer in dietetics and human nutrition at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

REGINA BELSKI is an accredited practising dietitian and senior lecturer and researcher in the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

ANTONIA (TANIA) THODIS is a clinical dietitian and is involved in nutrition research and teaching at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

SUE SHEPHERD is an advanced accredited practicing dietitian and a senior lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

AUDREY TIERNEY is a senior clinical dietitian at Alfred Health and a senior lecturer and academic at La Trobe University, Melbourne.