Principles of Nutritional Assessment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195171693)

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.
A paperback edition of this book is available to readers living outside of North America and Europe. Interested parties should contact the author at: rsgibson@nutrition.earthlight.co.nz http: //nutrition.earthlight.co.n

Author: Rosalind S. Gibson
ISBN-10: 0195171691
ISBN-13: 9780195171693
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2005
Pages: 928
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.80lbs
Size: 7.06h x 10.18w x 1.60d