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[Ebook PDF] Lutz’s Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 7th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-0803668140
ISBN-10: 0803668147

Author: Erin Mazur (Author), Nancy Litch (Author)

Meet the ever-changing demands of providing quality nutritional care for patients across the lifespan. This popular text provides a strong foundation in the science of nutrition and a clear understanding of how to apply that knowledge in practice, recognizing the need for nurses to work with other healthcare professionals to ensure optimal nutrition in patient care.

Preface
The seventh edition of Lutz’s Nutrition and Diet Therapy is designed to provide the beginning student with knowledge of the fundamentals of nutrition related to the promotion and maintenance of optimal health. Practical applications and treatment of pathologies with nutritional components are stressed. In addition, basic scientific information is introduced to enable students to begin to understand nutritional issues reported in the mass media. The sequential introduction of material continues to be a unique feature of this text. The authors resist the temptation to introduce concepts and examples of applications before the underlying basic science and vocabulary have been covered. The seventh edition has been extensively streamlined and updated with new information (e.g., the new food label), incorporating updated illustrations and tables. Within the boundaries of a beginning course, specific information is included to enhance understanding of the “why” of nutritional care, not only the “what.”
This book was written to meet the educational needs of nursing students, dietetic assistants, diet technicians, and others. Support materials for the student include case studies with examples of care plans, including referrals to other members of the health-care team, followed by Critical Thinking Questions designed to provoke imaginative thought and to foster discussion. Each chapter has review questions and clinical analysis study questions.
As researchers discover new and more effective treatments for nutrition-related disorders and health maintenance, the ability to think critically becomes increasingly important for professional growth and development. Students need not only to grasp the facts but also to apply the information in a clinical environment. This text has been developed to facilitate acquiring these skills.
The text can be used to teach a complete course in nutrition or as a desk reference for practitioners. The student using this book needs no previous grounding in anatomy, physiology, or medical terminology. Subjects are fully supported by diagrams, illustrations, figures, and tables. Depending on the curriculum, chapters may be omitted or presented in a different sequence. We recognize that this text contains an
immense amount of data and information. It is our hope that this rich store of information permits instructors to adapt the text to the objectives of their courses while serving as a reference and directory for students, satisfying their curiosities or completing solo or group projects whether in preclinical or in clinical courses.
The content of Lutz’s Nutrition and Diet Therapy, seventh edition, is organized into three units.

Unit 1, The Role of Nutrients in the Human Body, covers basic information on nutrition as a science and how this information is applied to nutritional care. All the essential nutrients are covered, including definitions and descriptions of functions, effects of excesses and deficiencies, and food sources. Nutritional standards, including the Dietary Reference Intakes, are explained and incorporated into discussions of nutrients. Information on the use of food in the body and how the body maintains energy balance completes the unit.
Unit 2, Family and Community Nutrition, provides an overview of topics such as nutrition throughout the life cycle, covering pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Lastly, issues in food management are addressed.
Unit 3, Clinical Nutrition, focuses on the care of clients with pathologies caused by or causing nutritional impairments. General topics include nutrient delivery via oral, enteral, and parenteral routes, and interactions among foods, nutrients, medications, and supplements. Pathological conditions include diabetes mellitus and hypoglycemia, cardiovascular disease, renal disease, digestive diseases, and cancer. Other pertinent topics include weight control, nutrition in critical care and during stress, diet affecting inflammation and infections, and care of the client with a terminal illness.
Special features are used throughout the text to facilitate the teaching and learning process. Chapters include the following:
Boxes and Tables contain summaries, assessment tools, commonly prescribed diets used in medical nutrition therapy, and research findings.
Clinical Applications stimulate the interest of the beginning student by showing how the information is pertinent to providing health care.
Clinical Calculations isolate and explain many of the mathematical calculations that are used in nutritional science. Dollars & Sense items focus on costs associated with commonly used foods and supplements. Occasionally, budget-sparing recipes are given to exemplify principles in the chapters.
Genomic Gems highlight links between a person’s genetic makeup and utilization of nutrients and dietary substances. Illustrations reinforce important points in the text or graph statistical data for clarity.
Flowcharts of physiological and pathological processes lead the student to an understanding of the relationship between nutrition and health.
A Case Study with a proposed Care Plan allows the student to see how the nutrition principles described in the chapter are applied in a specific clinical situation. The case studies were written to incorporate elements that are likely to occur in practice.
Teamwork following the care plan illustrates continuing care of a client by various members of the health-care team.
Chapter Review Questions and Clinical Analysis Questions help the student to focus on essential concepts. Answers to these questions are on Davis Plus. Critical Thinking Questions invite the student to think
holistically with compassion and creativity. They can be used as a basis for class discussion.
Appendices of Dietary Reference Intakes (Appendix A) serve as a readily available source of information for students in class discussions or group assignments. A Glossary (Appendix B) of more than 1,000 entries assists the reader to recall definitions of terms boldfaced in the text.
The Bibliography supports the text with data sources and introduces the student to the scientific literature and is on Davis Plus. Accompanying the text for instructors who adopt it for their classes are:
An Active Classroom Instructors’ Guide with suggestions for lectures, classroom activities, and student assignments. PowerPoint Presentations for all the chapters of the book. These presentations provide a ready source of material to select for classroom use. A Test Bank containing over 450 questions, arranged by chapter. We believe that Lutz’s Nutrition and Diet Therapy, seventh edition, provides the clinical information necessary for a fuller understanding of the relationship between the knowledge about nutrition and diet and its clinical application. This text balances direct explanations of the underlying science with an introduction to the clinical responsibilities of the health-care professional.