Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy [Paperback]

Sue Rodwell Williams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0801679230 | ISBN-13: 978-0801679230 | Edition: 6th

This book is designed for basic courses in nutrition and diet therapy with an emphasis on health maintenance. Content moves from basic science to its applications in practice, to help students discover the fundamentals of nutrition at work in human life. The sixth edition contains information on food labelling, the food pyramid, energy balance, weight management, food safety, and the immune system and AIDS.

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Book Description

best known for its personal application approach and presentation of nutrition principles from basic science to application in practice --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Sue Rodwell Williams, PhD, MPH, RD, MREd, Davis, CA; and Eleanor Schlenker, PhD, RD, Virginia Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Sciences, Blacksburg, VA --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 520 pages
• Publisher: Mosby-Year Book; 6th edition (January 15, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801679230
• ISBN-13: 978-0801679230
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,738,554 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For nutrition's sake, keep this book next to your stove., July 22, 2004

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Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy (Paperback)

This book is much better than its reviews would suggest and is indeed essnetial reading for anyone concerned with nutrition and ways to eat more healthily in today's toxic world. We lve surrounded by poison. Or maybe a better way to put it is, there are a few wet green grapes in the barbed wire or today's fast-food paradise. And thia book teaches you how to go for the gusto.

Rodwell Williams is a very good writer and I wish someday she's write a book of recipes based on her background in nutrition, which is unusually extensive. Some people just like to cirticize because she uses findimgs from the 80s, but they forget the 80s were a great time for discoveries in this vital field, and that a lot of the information, although supplemented since, has not been bettered nor contradicted. So, the next time you're standing there next to your stove with a handful of radishes in one hand and a pound of arugula in the other, head for this book and turn it to the chapter on vitamins to discover what you're missing; then add it; then you'll be in fitness heaven. As for the so-called "therapeutic" benefits of this book, I wish there was a TV show like The Apprentice, but instead of Donald Trump there would be Sue Rodwell Williams giving us the benefit of her advice, and as an added bonus, there wouldn't be that constant refrain (so hurtful) of "You're fired" either.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, good resource to have..., January 9, 2007

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Katherine G. Menocal "Book worm" (Miami, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy (Paperback)

The book is very good, it's an excellent resource for nursing students or even graduate nurses. I highly recommend it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Old information, Good format, November 16, 2002

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Ann L. Morris "avid reader" (Drexel Hill, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy (With CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh) (Paperback)

I like the way the book is put together, but for a brand new book there shouldn't be nutrition information as old as 1983. You can find better then this. Keep looking.