Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics (BDA)

Published on behalf of The British Dietetic Association, “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, such as: • public health efforts at diabetes prevention • formulating nutritional guidelines for diabetes • carbohydrates and the glycaemic index • the management of diabetes in older people The authors draw on their research and practical experience to offer sound guidance on best practice, ensuring that interventions are both scientifically secure and effective. ABOUT THE SERIES 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 diet in selected clinical specialties. Each book provides a comprehensive and critical review of key literature in its subject. 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, nutritional epidemiology and patient perspectives • Nutritional consequences of diseases • Nutritional assessment, drawing on anthropometric, biochemical, clinical, dietary, economic and social approaches • Clinical investigation and management • Nutritional and dietary management • 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.

“Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Gastroenterology” provides informative and broad-ranging coverage of the relation between nutrition and diet and the gastrointestinal tract. It explores dietary factors involved in causation of a variety of gastrointestinal disorders, as well as the effects on diet and the treatments available. It also provides an overview of anatomy and physiology, measurement and assessment of function, and dietary components relevant to gastrointestinal health. ABOUT THE SERIES 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 diet in selected clinical specialties. Each book provides a comprehensive and critical review of key literature in its subject. 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, nutritional epidemiology and patient perspectives • Nutritional consequences of diseases • Nutritional assessment, drawing on anthropometric, biochemical, clinical, dietary, economic and social approaches • Clinical investigation and management • Nutritional and dietary management • 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.

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 whose work should or does embrace any aspect of obesity.

Written in conjunction with the British Dietetic Association, “Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Nutrition Support” provides a thorough and critical review of the fundamental and applied 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 approaches to managing this in each of these conditions. Clinically oriented, “Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Nutrition Support” is the ideal reference for all those managing undernutrition in a range of clinical areas.