Essentials of Clinical Nutrition in Healthcare
About this ebook
Essentials of Clinical Nutrition in Healthcare fills the well-recognized evidence-practice gap between the nutrition knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for nutrition care and the nutrition education provided by medical schools.
Focusing on nutrition and dietetics, it walks you through the process of maintaining patients’ energy balance while also providing sufficient nutrients, such as protein, vitamins, and minerals. Evidence-based chapters address the effects of diet on health and a comprehensive array of illnesses. Essentials of Clinical Nutrition for Healthcare is organized into three major sections:
- The fundamentals of nutrition and how it applies to clinical practice, including nutrition through the lifespan and personalized nutrition
- Diverse scenarios on how nutritional state and metabolism behave in a morbid condition
- Expert advice for counseling and coaching for behavior change to impact patients’ lifestyles
About the author
Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH, is a pediatric gastroenterologist and nutrition physician at Boston Children's Hospital, where he runs the Center for Nutrition. He is co-director of the Harvard College course "Nutrition and Global Health," professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Global Health and Population at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Marie-France Hivert, MD, is an associate professor in the Department of Population Medicine, director of the Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine curriculum and the co-director of the advanced integrated science course "Metabolism, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Medicine" at Harvard Medical School. She is also a clinical investigator with a primary focus on the etiology and primordial prevention of obesity and related co-morbidities, particularly type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes.
