Diet Therapy in Advanced Practice Nursing

Description

Complete nutrition requires ingestion and absorption of vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids from protein and essential fatty acids from fat-containing food, also food energy in the form of carbohydrate, protein, and fat. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in the quality of life, health and longevity. Diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons. Although humans are omnivores, each culture and each person holds some food preferences or some food taboos. This may be due to personal tastes or ethical reasons. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthy. As scientific evidence continues to emerge showing the underlying role nutrition and diet play in preventing and treating common health issues. There's renewed emphasis by healthcare providers on delivering individualized nutrition prescriptions to patients to improve health outcomes. This book gathers together the evidence-based guidelines and practices recommended for the prevention, management, and treatment of a variety of disease states. Proven nutrition strategies for optimizing health and combating specific diseases – written for the advanced practice nurse. Author used his knowledge and experience in nutrition and nursing practice to write an easy-to-use book that gives readers practical resources.