Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy

Master the essentials of nutrition science and patient care with this concise text! Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 13th Edition helps you understand and apply nutrition concepts in the treatment of disease, disease prevention, and life enhancement. The text is broken out into three parts: the basics of nutrients and the body, the life cycle and community nutrition, and clinical nutrition. Case studies help you determine nutritional interventions in treating both acute and chronic conditions. Written by nutrition specialists Joyce Gilbert and Eleanor D. Schlenker, this book includes the latest advances in research and evidence-based practice.

• Strong community focus includes robust coverage of health promotion, cultural competence, patient safety, lifespan, and public health issues.
• Person-centered approach helps you develop practical solutions to individual problems, based on the authors' personal research and clinical experience.
• MyPlate for Older Adults is included, as developed by nutrition scientists at Tufts University and the AARP Foundation, along with the Nestlé Mini Nutritional Assessment Scale.
• Health Promotion sections help you with nutrition education, stressing healthy lifestyle choices and prevention as the best medicine.
• Case studies provide opportunities for problem solving, allowing you to apply concepts to practical situations in nutrition care.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes emphasize critical thinking and summarize current research findings.
• Focus on Culture boxes highlight cultural competence and the nutritional deficiencies, health problems, and appropriate interventions relating to different cultural, ethnic, racial, and age groups.
• Focus on Food Safety boxes alert you to food safety issues related to a particular nutrient, population group, or medical condition.
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine boxes offer uses, contraindications, and advantages/disadvantages of common types of herbs and supplements, and potential interactions with prescription or over-the-counter medications.
• Chapter summaries and review questions reinforce your understanding of key concepts and their application.
• Key terms are identified in the text and defined on the page to help reinforce critical concepts.

• NEW! Next Generation NCLEX^(R) (NGN)-style case studies apply concepts to realistic scenarios.
• NEW! Dietary Guidelines have been updated to the 2020-2025 edition with new illustrations.
• NEW! Coverage of the Healthy People initiative is updated to the 2030 national objectives.
• NEW! Revised guidelines for potassium and sodium fit the new recommendations for adequate intake of potassium and for sodium chronic disease risk reduction intake.
• NEW! Content on obesity is incorporated into the Energy Balance chapter.
• NEW! Updated content on nutrients is added.
• NEW! Updated references include many new and current works.

掌握營養科學和病患護理的基本要素，藉由這本簡明的教材！《威廉斯營養與飲食療法精要，第13版》幫助您了解並應用營養概念於疾病治療、疾病預防和生活提升。本書分為三個部分：營養素和身體的基礎知識、生命週期和社區營養、以及臨床營養。案例研究幫助您在治療急性和慢性疾病時確定營養干預措施。由營養專家Joyce Gilbert和Eleanor D. Schlenker撰寫，本書包含最新的研究進展和循證實踐。

- 強調社區焦點，包括健康促進、文化能力、病患安全、壽命和公共衛生議題。
- 以以人為本的方法，幫助您根據作者個人的研究和臨床經驗，制定解決個別問題的實際解決方案。
- 包含由塔夫茨大學營養科學家和美國退休人員協會基金會開發的《老年人的MyPlate》以及雀巢迷你營養評估量表。
- 健康促進部分幫助您進行營養教育，強調健康的生活方式選擇和預防為最佳醫藥。
- 案例研究提供解決問題的機會，讓您將概念應用於營養護理的實際情況。
- 循證實踐方塊強調批判思考並總結當前的研究發現。
- 文化焦點方塊突出文化能力以及與不同文化、民族、種族和年齡群體相關的營養缺乏、健康問題和適當的干預措施。
- 食品安全焦點方塊提醒您與特定營養素、人群或醫療狀況相關的食品安全問題。
- 輔助和替代醫學方塊提供常見草藥和補充劑的用途、禁忌症以及優點/缺點，以及與處方藥或非處方藥物的潛在相互作用。
- 章節摘要和復習問題強化您對關鍵概念及其應用的理解。
- 在文本中標識並定義關鍵詞，以幫助強化關鍵概念的理解。

新增功能：
- 新一代NCLEX(R)（NGN）風格的案例研究將概念應用於現實情境。
- 更新的《膳食指南》以2020-2025版進行更新，並附有新的插圖。
- 更新的《健康人計畫》內容已更新至2030年的國家目標。
- 鉀和鈉的修訂指南符合鉀的適當攝入量和鈉的慢性疾病風險降低攝入量的新建議。
- 將肥胖的內容納入《能量平衡》章節。
- 新增更新的營養素內容。
- 更新的參考文獻包括許多新的和最新的作品。