Clinical Nutrition Textbook, 2nd Edition

Contents
Contributors
SeriesForeword
Preface
FirstEditionAcknowledgements
1PrinciplesofClinicalNutrition:Contrastingthe
PracticeofNutritioninHealthandDisease
1.1Introduction
1.2Thespectrumofnutritionalproblems
1.3Nutritionalrequirements
1.4Managementpathways
1.5Concludingremarks
2NutritionalScreeningandAssessment
2.1Introduction
2.2Nutritionalscreening
2.3Nutritionalassessment
2.4Concludingremarks
3WaterandElectrolytes
3.1Introduction
3.2Fluidcompartmentsofthebody

3.3Fluxoffluidthroughthekidneyand
gastrointestinaltract
3.4Bodyelectrolytecontentandconcentration
3.5Regulationofbodywatercompartments
3.6Themetabolicresponsetostarvationandinjury
3.7Bodywatercompartmentsandelectrolytesin
starvationandinjury
3.8Effectsofsaltandwateroverload
3.9Fluidtherapy:practicalaspects
3.10Goal-directedfluidtherapy
3.11Implicationsofwaterandsodiummetabolism
innutritiontherapyforspecificclinicalconditions
3.12Concludingremarks
4Over-nutrition
4.1Introduction
4.2Aetiology
4.3Clinicalpresentation
4.4Clinicalassessment
4.5Treatmentapproaches
4.6Prevention
4.7Concludingremarks
Acknowledgements
5Under-nutrition
5.1Introduction

5.2Pathophysiologyofunder-nutrition
5.3Pathophysiologyofunder-nutritioncomplicated
bystress
5.4Chronicunder-nutrition
5.5Under-nutritionintheelderly
5.6Severeacutemalnutritioninchildren
5.7Assessmentofunder-nutrition
5.8Treatment
5.9Potentialproblemswithnutritional
supplementationinunder-nutrition
5.10Prevention
5.11Concludingremarks
6MetabolicDisorders
6.1Introduction
6.2Energyintake,healthandlongevity
6.3Themetabolicsyndrome
6.4Pathophysiologyofinsulinresistance
6.5Insulinresistance
6.6Theroleofaffluenceindiabetes,dyslipidaemia,
andessentialhypertension
6.7Alcohol
6.8Concludingremarks
7EatingDisorders
7.1Introduction

7.2Classificationandfeatures
7.3History
7.4Aetiology
7.5Incidenceandprevalence
7.6Medicalcomplicationsofeatingdisorders
7.7Nutritionalproblemsineatingdisorders
7.8Nutritionalmanagementofeatingdisorders
7.9Concludingremarks
Acknowledgements
8AdverseReactionstoFoods
8.1Introduction
8.2Foodintolerance
8.3Foodallergy
8.4Typesoffoodallergy
8.5Patternsoffood-allergicresponses
8.6Diagnosticcriteriaforfoodallergy
8.7Food-sensitiveenteropathy
8.8Specificfoodallergies
8.9Multiple-foodallergy
8.10Scientificbackground:thebasicmechanismsof
immuneresponsetodietaryantigen
8.11Concludingremarks
9NutritionalSupport
9.1Introduction