Nutrition Throughout The Life Cycle

Nutrition is viewed traditionally as the specific dietary requirements of different age groups, without exploring diet in the context of a life-long contributory factor to well-being. Nutrition Through the Life Cycle summarises what is known about the relationship between diet and health at different points in the life cycle, and the nutritional requirements of individuals of different ages. Nutrition policy and health promotion are discussed, together with how dietary interventions can provide long-term benefits to individuals and populations. Also covered are the major dietary challenges that exist in modern society, including the rise in incidence of obesity in both children and adolescents, anaemia in children and adolescents, and diet-related cancers. This book is published in association with Leatherhead Food International.

Now in its sixth edition, NUTRITION THROUGH THE LIFE CYCLE explains how nutrition impacts the ability to grow, develop, and function normally through each stage of the human life span, and how some common conditions can develop when nutritional deficits exist. Filled with learning features like chapter outlines, realistic case studies, and self-testing questions, this reader-focused text organizes chapters in pairs, walking you through each life stage and alternating between normal nutrition and clinical nutrition topics. NUTRITION THROUGH THE LIFE CYCLE also comes to you from an expert author team of registered dieticians, teachers, and researchers -- all with unique perspectives and expertise to help you understand all of the content areas with interest and depth. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Abstract: This comprehensive text is designed primarily for students in upper division courses in life cycle nutrition and for health professionals working in both individual and community programs. Focus is on human growth and development needs at each stage of life: pregnancy and lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adults and the aging process, and special needs of the elderly in the aging population. Discussions are provided on the changing body at each stage in the human life cycle; ways of determining nutritional status and needs along the way; the special needs of persons carrying increased risk at different ages and stressful life situations; and new approaches to nutrition education for health promotion. This text includes illustrations, appendices, charts, learning aids, and a glossary.

This text presents an overview of the special nutritional issues common at the different periods of the life cycle. It stresses the impact of nutrition on quality of life at each stage of development and features the latest thinking on contemporary issues and current research.

This text includes nutrition during young and middle adult, pregnancy, infancy, childhood, adolescence and aging years.

Uses research to explain the nutritional foundations necessary for the growth, development, and normal functioning of individuals in each stage of the life span. This book presents research in eating disorders, heart disease, diabetes, and many other topics.

From birth to old age, there are more than 50 essential nutrients we all require for normal physiological functioning and optimum health. Though everyone requires the same nutrients throughout life, the specific amounts vary depending on age, gender, body composition, health status, and many other environmental and genetic factors. Nutrition Throughout the Lifecycle provides the reader with an overview of the complex relationship between dietary intake and health promotion and offers students and health care practitioners a detailed reference guide to key nutrient requirements, major food sources, and recommended meal patterns that align with evidence-based government guidelines for adequate intake. In so doing, Lifecycle covers the central nutritional issues unique to each major stage of life, including preconception care, pregnancy and fetal development, infancy, early and middle childhood, adolescence, and advanced age. The goal of this book is to summarize the key points and concepts needed to understand the process by which nutrient needs, lifestyle, and environmental considerations affect human health from one stage of life to the next, and how dietary requirements shift with growth, development, and age.