Dietary recommendations need to be based on solid evidence, but where can you find this information? The British Dietetic Association and the publishers of the Manual of Dietetic Practice present an essential and authoritative reference series on the evidence-base relating to advanced aspects of nutrition and dietetics in selected clinical areas.
Each book provides a comprehensive and critical review of key literature in the area. Each covers established areas of understanding, current controversies and areas of future development and investigation, and is oriented around six key themes:
- Disease processes, including metabolism, physiology, and genetics
- Disease consequences, including morbidity, mortality and patient perspectives
- Clinical investigation and management
- Nutritional consequences of diseases
- Nutritional assessment, drawing on anthropometric, biochemical, clinical, and dietary approaches
- Nutritional and dietary management of disease
Trustworthy, international in scope, and accessible, Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics is a vital resource for a range of practitioners, researchers and educators in nutrition and dietetics, including dietitians, nutritionists, doctors and specialist nurses.
Edited by Professor Kevin Whelan, the books are available to purchase with a 35% BDA member discount from Wiley publications.
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Titles include:
Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Gastroenterology
Book Editor: Dr Miranda Lomer
Series Editor: Professor Kevin Whelan, Professor of Dietetics, King’s College London, UK.
This book explores dietary factors involved in a range of gastrointestinal disorders, plus effects on diet and available treatments. It is trustworthy, internationally-focused, and written specifically to meet the needs of a wide range of professionals.
Take a look at a review by Yvonne McKenzie, Clinical lead in IBS of the BDA Gastroenterology Specialist Group.
Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Diabetes
Book Editors: Dr Louise Goff, Dr Pamela Dyson
Series Editor: Professor Kevin Whelan, Professor of Dietetics, King’s College London, UK.
Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Diabetes is an exploration of the evidence and practice of nutrition in diabetes, offering a global view of the lifestyle interventions for the prevention and management of diabetes, including management of complications and special population groups. With internationally recognised authors, this book applies the rigour of evidence-based medicine to important enduring topics in diabetes.
Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Obesity
ISBN 9780470670767
Book Editor: Dr Catherine Hankey, Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition in the School of Medicine at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Series Editor: Professor Kevin Whelan, Professor of Dietetics, King’s College London, UK.
This addition to the British Dietetic Association Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics book series is written for clinicians and researchers who work with any aspect of obesity and its comorbid conditions. Featuring contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from around the globe, Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Obesity offers a uniquely international perspective on what has become a worldwide public health crisis.
Chapters cover a full range of new ideas and research on the underlying drivers of obesity in populations including discussions on the genetic and clinical aspects of obesity, along with expert recommendations on how to effectively manage and prevent this chronic and persistent disease.
Providing a comprehensive overview of the key literature in this field, Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Obesity is an invaluable resource for all those all those whose work should or does embrace any aspect of obesity.
Take a look at the Obesity book review.
Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Nutrition Support
ISBN 9781118993859
Book Editors: Professor Mary Hickson, Professor of Dietetics, University of Plymouth, UK & Dr Sara Smith, Senior Lecturer Dietetics, Queen Margaret University, UK.
Series Editor: Professor Kevin Whelan, Professor of Dietetics, King’s College London, UK.
Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Nutrition Support provides a thorough and critical review of the fundamental literature in nutrition support.
Extensively evidence-based and internationally relevant, it discusses undernutrition, nutritional screening, assessment and interventions, as well as key clinical conditions likely to require nutrition support, and the appropriate care of these.
Clinically oriented and written specifically for nutritionists and dietitians, Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Nutrition Support is the ideal reference for all those managing malnutrition and undernutrition in patients.
Details on the full book series are available on the Wiley Website
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