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Nutrition and Diet Therapy
AJN Book of the Year 2010 Be prepared to meet the ever-changing demands of providing quality nutritional care for patients.
This popular text, developed jointly by a nurse and a dietitian, provides a strong foundation in the science of nutrition and a clear understanding of how to apply that knowledge in practice. The 5th Edition is more reader friendly than ever, with a new contemporary, full-color design and a wealth of online tools and resources for students and instructors. Highlights include the many pictures, charts, tables, care plans, and assessment tools.
It effectively combines nursing care with the nutritional information pertinent to today's classroom and practice settings. It's ideal for stand-alone nutrition courses, programs that offer nutrition as part of Medical-Surgical, Fundamentals, or Pediatrics classes, or as a supplement to any nutrition content.
This popular text, developed jointly by a nurse and a dietitian, provides a strong foundation in the science of nutrition and a clear understanding of how to apply that knowledge in practice. The 5th Edition is more reader friendly than ever, with a new contemporary, full-color design and a wealth of online tools and resources for students and instructors. Highlights include the many pictures, charts, tables, care plans, and assessment tools.
It effectively combines nursing care with the nutritional information pertinent to today's classroom and practice settings. It's ideal for stand-alone nutrition courses, programs that offer nutrition as part of Medical-Surgical, Fundamentals, or Pediatrics classes, or as a supplement to any nutrition content.
624 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1994
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May 9, 2016
changing editions for the sake of rearranging content just to make a new edition. there isn't any new information in it, so you might as well get a prior edition for a fraction of the cost. but this isn't why it's a bad book. this is what's wrong with it:
1. the approach to treating malnutrition is always case by case when the first thing you learn is that there are 925 million people living with chronic hunger. as i pointed out in class, treating one person for malnutrition will leave 924,999,999 people that are still malnourished. so, the one-on-one approach to treatment is wrong. but more than wrong, it is immoral and criminal.
2. as if in terror of getting sued by the beef / cattle and poultry industry, this textbook completely glosses over the fact that these factory farms have consistently put growth hormones and antibiotics in their products with absolutely no accountability. it's important to know why and how their interest groups are operating in washington d.c., why it is illegal to film factory farms, and why these facilities are not open to the public.
3. it mentions in passing that some of the agricultural practices are not sustainable, but it continues on to provide these foods as an option to our diet
4. this textbook never tells you that the majority of people who eat pork have trichinosis
5. completely glosses over difficulties and dysfunction associated with health. for example, on pg 277 (life cycle nutrition: the mature adult / exercise), it says "recommendations for exercise in the older adult are the same as for the younger adult", without pointing out that the older adult will have to go through a lot of pain and aches to achieve that objective. that's if the older adult is even capable. sometimes older adults are unable to exercise. it should have mentioned in this section that if someone is unable to perform a certain activity, that another activity should be substituted, so that the objective can be met
with all these faults, i'm finding it extremely difficult to trust any information in this book. and since these problems are not discussed in class, it is no wonder that most of the medical students that take this class go on to use scrubs to hide their fat rolls. when i pointed this out to the instructor, his reply is that in academia we learn knowledge. this answer is totally not acceptable. the whole point of nutrition and diet therapy is to find a way to live that is symbiotic with the ecosystem.
1. the approach to treating malnutrition is always case by case when the first thing you learn is that there are 925 million people living with chronic hunger. as i pointed out in class, treating one person for malnutrition will leave 924,999,999 people that are still malnourished. so, the one-on-one approach to treatment is wrong. but more than wrong, it is immoral and criminal.
2. as if in terror of getting sued by the beef / cattle and poultry industry, this textbook completely glosses over the fact that these factory farms have consistently put growth hormones and antibiotics in their products with absolutely no accountability. it's important to know why and how their interest groups are operating in washington d.c., why it is illegal to film factory farms, and why these facilities are not open to the public.
3. it mentions in passing that some of the agricultural practices are not sustainable, but it continues on to provide these foods as an option to our diet
4. this textbook never tells you that the majority of people who eat pork have trichinosis
5. completely glosses over difficulties and dysfunction associated with health. for example, on pg 277 (life cycle nutrition: the mature adult / exercise), it says "recommendations for exercise in the older adult are the same as for the younger adult", without pointing out that the older adult will have to go through a lot of pain and aches to achieve that objective. that's if the older adult is even capable. sometimes older adults are unable to exercise. it should have mentioned in this section that if someone is unable to perform a certain activity, that another activity should be substituted, so that the objective can be met
with all these faults, i'm finding it extremely difficult to trust any information in this book. and since these problems are not discussed in class, it is no wonder that most of the medical students that take this class go on to use scrubs to hide their fat rolls. when i pointed this out to the instructor, his reply is that in academia we learn knowledge. this answer is totally not acceptable. the whole point of nutrition and diet therapy is to find a way to live that is symbiotic with the ecosystem.
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