Essentials of Human Nutrition
The Tongan experience nutritional and immune defence nutrition support in hospital and clinical and public health nutritional recommendations for the general population nutrition promotion for communities dietary counselling are presented.
Abstract
<p> <italic>Essentials of Human Nutrition</italic> provides a comprehensive guide to human nutrition. The first part provides an introduction. Part 2 looks at energy and macronutrients, considering carbohydrates, lipids, protein, energy, and alcohol. Part 3 looks at organic and inorganic essential nutrients. The fourth part covers nutrition-related disorders such as obesity, protein-energy malnutrition, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and eating disorders. The fifth part looks at food groups and food toxicity and safety. Part 6 considers changing food habits. The seventh part is about various life stages and how they relate to nutrition, such as pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, lactation, infants, toddlers, childhood, adolescents, and aging. The next part looks at nutritional assessment. The last part talks about applications such as sport nutrition, poverty, food in hospitals, and hospital patients.</p>