Author: Sarah L. Morgan

Publisher: Elsevier España

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9788481744668

Written mainly for medical students and residents in training, this book is intended to complement medical training by emphasizing the relevance of nutrition to medical practice and to heighten awareness of nutrition as a medical specialty that is important for both disease prevention and the treatment of diseases of essentially every organ system. Topics covered include lifestyle, diet, and disease; nutrients and the metabolic process; nutrition and the hospitalized patient, etc.