Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle

Updates the first edition with added chapters; a new format, design and illustrations; additional learning aids, etc. Focuses on positive health for which nutrition provides a fundamental foundation. Contains chapters on the role of nutrition in the life cycle; nutrition and assessment basics; nutrition for the adult; maternal nutrition; lactation and human milk; nutrition during infancy, childhood, and adolescence; nutrition for the aging and the aged; and nutrition education. Designed for a broad spectrum of students, with varying degrees of nutrition backgrounds, in courses in life cycle nutrition and for health professionals working in both individual and community health programs.