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Product Description: Dietitian’s Guide to Assessment and Documentation takes an investigative approach to nutrition assessment – reviewing the collection and analysis of evidence to determine the real nutrition-related problem, understanding the underlying problem and its effect on nutritional status, and providing intervention to address the problem - thereby improving nutritional health...read more

Product Description: This text describes the four major methods of nutritional assessment (dietary, anthropometric, biometric, and clinical) in an understandable and contemporary way. It thoroughly covers assessment of the hospitalized individual, but also serves as an invaluable resource to the nutrition professional working in such areas as public health and community nutrition, corporate health, and sports medicine...read more

This comprehensive text is the first to provide a detailed discussion of dietary, anthropometric, laboratory, and clinical nutritional assessment procedures used in both hospitals and communities. Offering an international perspective it covers the scientific basis, advantages, limitations, and applicability of different methods, as well as the use of appropriate reference data. Quantitative aspects of dietary assessment are stressed and highly informative sections of precision and validity are included. The anthropometric section gives readers a detailed review of available reference data and methods for assessing body composition in the community and laboratory. The growing importance of trace elements in human nutrition, and new developments in the nutritional assessment of hospital patients, are also highlighted.

Product Description: Since 1994 the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board has been involved in developing an expanded approach to developing dietary reference standards. This approach, the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs), provides a set of four nutrient-based reference values designed to replace the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) in the United States and the Recommended Nutrient Intakes (RNIs) in Canada...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since 1994 the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board has been involved in developing an expanded approach to developing dietary reference standards. This approach, the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs), provides a set of four nutrient-based reference values designed to replace the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) in the United States and the Recommended Nutrient Intakes (RNIs) in Canada...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written by a former communications attorney and daily newspaper editor, MAJOR PRINCIPLES OF MEDIA LAW is a comprehensive and concise summary of media law. It has been refined through eleven editions and reviewed over the years by more than 30 law scholars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This second edition of a bestselling textbook is greatly expanded with a focus on the nutritional status of individuals and groups in today's society. It includes new information on assessment methodology, anthropometry, case management, quality improvement, and accountability...read more

Product Description: This work addresses issues arising from the definition and measurement of poverty in terms of nutritional status. A range of issues are covered, focusing on the differing views and perceptions of the related questions of assessing poverty and nutritional status...read more

Product Description: This practical book discusses the importance of body measurements as indicators of human nutritional conditions. Various experts present state-of-the-art overviews regarding both theoretical and practical issues dealing with application and interpretation of body measurements to evaluate adequate or deficient nutrition...read more

Product Description: Book by Pressman, Alan H., Adams, Alan H.