Product Description: This 7.5 by 9.75 inch Wirebound Decomposition Book by Michael Roger Press includes a cover filled with wildlife of the Andes. The mountains are featured in the background while chinchilla, llama, emu, flamingo and condors occupy the meadow in the foreground...read more

Product Description: Approaches to Behavior provides information and simple tools that healthcare professionals can use to help patients move beyond feelings that prevent them from benefiting fully from any learning opportunity. Each chapter opens with an introduction to experts’ newest psychological understanding about a common emotion...read more

Product Description: This guide is intended for those who wish to understand the complex relationships between diet and the major diseases of western civilization, such as cancer and atherosclerosis. It is aimed both at researchers engaged in the unraveling of these complex associations and at readers of the rapidly multiplying and often confusing scholarly literature on the subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Based on research presented at the Vahouny Fiber Symposium, Washington, D.C. Significant progress has been made in the past decade on the study of dietary fiber effects on human physiology. This book presents new findings on the role of fiber in health and disease. Included is new information detailing fiber's effects on: Lipid absorption Carbohydrate metabolism Physiology and morphology Cancer and more. Because it examines not only fiber as it exists in food, but also the dynamics of fiber and the human diet, Dietary Fiber in Health and Disease will be an invaluable reference for professionals from a variety of disciplines, including: Biochemists Epidemiologists Physiologists Nutritionists Gastroenterologists The contributions of more than thirty of the world's leading fiber researchers have been compiled in this one comprehensive resource.

Product Description: This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda on March 21-23. 1988. jointly sponsored by the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) and the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health...read more

The CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition concisely defines hundreds of terms used in nutrition science, providing quick answers to questions encountered by physicians, nurses, dietitians, physical therapists, pharmacists, and students in their day-to-day work and research. Reflecting the hybrid nature of nutrition science, the book collects terms from biochemistry, molecular biology, and other related disciplines in one convenient volume. In the CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition key information on nutrition topics from Additives to Vitamins is alphabetized, summarized, tabulated, and illustrated. This time-saving source of new facts, ideas, and terminology in nutrition science is a much-needed reference for everyone in this field.

This introductory normal and clinical nutrition text designed to meet the needs of the nursing curriculum takes an organ systems/disease states approach to clinical nutrition and presents nutrition at a basic, applied level, with little detailed physiology or biochemistry.

Describes how a father embarked on an emotional and desperate race against time to find scientists capable of developing a treatment for his critically ill children, both suffering from the rare, genetic Pompe Disease, explaining how he used his own funds to create a biotechnology start-up company in order to find a cure for the ailment.

A definitive survey of the frequently undiagnosed autoimmune disease describes the signs and symptoms of celiac disease, its effects on the human body's digestive system, available diagnostic procedures, treatment options, and diet and lifestyle issues, with special sections on medical contact information, national support groups, and additional resources. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Handbook of Nutrition in the Aged: Second Edition reviews major nutritional problems occurring in adults and the elderly. Updated and expanded, this new edition provides a detailed treatment of the key nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that are frequently deficient in the diets of aging adults. Important advances regarding the role of calcium in the health of aging adults are examined as well. Recent research regarding the treatment of a variety of nutritionally related diseases and conditions is included. The book also presents expanded coverage of the special nutritional needs of refugee and prisoner of war groups, in addition to a discussion of the special nutritional problems of the Third World. Handbook of Nutrition in the Aged: Second Edition will be an important reference for dietitians, clinical and research nutritionists, gerontologists, experimental biologists, and other researchers involved with adult nutrition. (view table of contents)