Includes bibliographic references and index.

"The authors of this text are educators, clinicians, and researchers. Therefore, our purpose in the fifth edition of this text is to continue our original goals to provide the most up-to-date research and application of evidence-based nutritional care for students, clinicians, and researchers as they seek to understand and treat nutrition-related disease. Most of us look to those primary reference texts as the cornerstone of our practice. Many names come to mind-Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, the Aspen Nutrition Support Core Curriculum, and Harrison's Book of Internal Medicine. We continue to strive for this to be one of those reference texts not only to provide the information necessary to understand nutrition practice but also provide it in such a way that the learning environment will support students' development of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and decision-making skills"-- Provided by publisher.