Download or read book Applied Nutrition and Diet Therapy written by Grace Burtis and published by W.B. Saunders Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This text is intended to show nursing students how to apply sound nutrition principles in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating total patient care in order to contribute to the nutritional well-being of patients. Topics include: basic principles of nutrition, application of basic nutrition principles, dietary treatment of disease, ethnic food patterns and breast-feeding and infant nutrition. Appendices contain food composition tables.