Description
Book SynopsisWithin the United Kingdom (UK), most mainstream healthcare practitioners receive little or no nutrition education during their years of training. As a consequence, the understanding of nutrition amongst primary care practitioners such as general practitioners, pharmacists, midwives, and practice nurses is limited and is largely focused on energy consumption and obesity. There is little knowledge of the wealth of micronutrients that underpin health, nor of the ticking timebomb of insufficient intakes of those micronutrients amongst a significant proportion of the population in the UK.
The Building Blocks of Life: A Nutrition Foundation for Healthcare Professionals is a step towards redressing that balance. It sets out an informative and engaging narrative on how and why nutrition is the basis for good health. It discusses UK-specific issues with regards to diet and intakes of vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and other micronutrients. It also raises concerns abou
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Nutrition Basics
Chapter 2. Malnutrition
Chapter 3. Digestion
Chapter 4. Obesity
Chapter 5. Immunity
Chapter 6. Vitamin D
Chapter 7. Conception, pregnancy, and foetal development
Chapter 8. Tired all the time
Chapter 9. Different Ways of eating
Conclusion
