Handbook for Nutritional Assessment Through Life Cycle

Dr M Mohamed Essa, Ghazi Dradkeh, Nejib Guizani (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

2016
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-63482-768-3 (ISBN)

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Nutritional assessment has been considered as a cornerstone of nutritional diagnosis, management, intervention and dietary planning. Specific criteria, methods and procedures should be used for different age groups through a person's life cycle based on the requirements of each age group. Use of precise and accurate nutritional assessment tools and procedure to detect those who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition will help dietitians to create an accurate dietary plan and intervention, which may help in quality of life improvement. This handbook includes the details of each assessment method for different age groups, from pregnancy to old age. It will be used as a quick, practical guide and reference for clinical dietitians. It includes dietary, anthropometric, biochemical and clinical assessments.

Dr M Mohamed Essa, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Nutrition at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman and holding visiting A/Prof position in Neuropharmacology group, ASAM, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is an editor-in-chief for International Journal of Nutrition, Pharmacology, Neurological Diseases published by Wolters & Kluwer, USA and an involved in editor/reviewer board of various well known journals such as Frontiers in Neuroscience, Biochemie, PLOS one, etc. He is an expert in the field of Nutritional Neuroscience and published 84 papers, 31 book chapters and 7 books (4 published and 3 in press). He has strong international collaborations with institutes in USA, Australia and India. Recently he founded a new foundation named Food and Brain Research Foundation to support research in nutritional neuroscience. He is holding memberships in various international bodies including American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN), International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN), etc. He has received so many awards from local and international bodies and this year one of his book titled Food and Brain health was awarded as best book in the World by GOURMAND Cook Book Awards. He has received many research grants from local and international agencies.

Preface; Synopsis of the Book; Nutritional Assessment During Pregnancy ; Nutritional Assessment During Lactation; Nutritional Assessment During Infancy & Childhood; Nutritional Assessment During Adolescence; Nutritional Assessment During Adult ; Nutritional Assessment During Elderly; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2016
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 260 mm
Gewicht	392 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
ISBN-10	1-63482-768-6 / 1634827686
ISBN-13	978-1-63482-768-3 / 9781634827683
Zustand	Neuware