Principles of Nutritional Assessment, 2nd Edition
Rosalind S. Gibson, "Principles of Nutritional Assessment, 2nd Edition"
2005 | ISBN-10: 0195171691 | 928 pages | Djvu | 204 MB
2005 | ISBN-10: 0195171691 | 928 pages | Djvu | 204 MB
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.