DIETETICS 9th Edition  (Paperback, B SRILAKSHMI)

Food and nutrition are important for human beings during health and disease. Nutrition and dietetics are basic to all developmental programmes. A knowledge of diet is essential for teachers, health professionals, administrators and students of health science. Written by Mrs. B. Srilakshmi, Lecturer, Anna Adarsh College for Women, Chennai, this book explains the dietetic care needed during the different periods and stages of life and the specific diet therapy for several disease conditions. With a variety of diets, illustrations and tables in appropriate chapters, the book has been written well. The book also displays a knowledge of physiology, biochemistry, pathology and clinical medicine as related to nutrition.