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Nutrition in Pharmacy Practice

Name: Nutrition in Pharmacy Practice
Author: Ira Wolinsky
ISBN: 9781582120232

by Ira Wolinsky, Louis Williams

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Overview

Nutrition's importance in maintaining health and preventing disease is receiving more scrutiny than ever as public interest in "alternative" medicine expands. Consumers are buying vitamins, dietary supplements, and herbal remedies in record numbers-and pharmacists are the health professionals they're most likely to ask for guidance.
Nutrition in Pharmacy Practice, the most comprehensive nutrition reference written specifically for pharmacists, offers readable, up-to-date information to help pharmacists make sound decisions in their practice and give patients accurate advice. Each Chapter is written by top experts in nutrition and pharmacy, with the needs of practicing pharmacists in mind.
Key Features:
• 9 Chapters, thoroughly researched and referenced, contributed by 20 authors with extensive clinical and research experience.
• Readable, Practical advice to help pharmacists provide nutritional counseling
• Overview of dietary components and concise tables summarizing recommended intakes.
• In-depth discussion of pediatric nutrition plus details on nutrition throughout the lifecycle.
• Essential information on drug-nutrient interactions.
• Thorough review of enteral and parenteral nutrition, including algorithms with guidelines for treatment decisions.
• Useful information on herbal remedies, ergogenic aids for physical performance, and weight control.
• A close look at diet and disease, including questions to ask patients about their medical conditions to help identify nutritional issues.
• Detailed appendices including dietary reference intakes, tolerable upper intake levels for vitamins and elements, and selected sources of nutrition information suchas journals, Web sites, and organizations.

Synopsis

Written by pharmacists and nutritionists at academic medical institutions in the US, the nine articles of this volume address those aspects of nutrition now increasingly part of the pharmacists' purview. The topics are dietary counseling, drug-nutrient interactions, ergogenic aids, herbal medicines, pediatric nutrition, enteral and parenteral nutrition, energy balance and weight control, and diet and disease. An introductory chapter describes the essentials of nutrition. Boxes provide details on history, conditions, and summaries of essential points. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR