This is a comprehensive text on the methods - dietary, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical - of assessing the nutritional status of populations and of individuals in the hospital or the community. This Second Edition incorporates recent data from national nutritional surveys in the US and Europe; the flood of new information about iron, vitamin A and iodine; the role of folate in preventing neural tube defects; the use of HPLC techniques and enzyme assays; improvements in data handling; and many other developments.
A paperback edition of this book is available to readers living outside of North America and Europe. Interested parties should contact the author at: rsgibson@nutrition.earthlight.co.nz http://nutrition.earthlight.co.nz
Principles of Nutritional Assessment
Gibson, Rosalind S.
$122.16 - $152.70
- UPC:
- 9780195171693
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Publication Date:
- 2005-03-31
- Author:
- Rosalind S. Gibson
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- 2