The practical nutritional assessment -- Body composition analysis -- Micronutrient deficiencies -- Clinical consequences of undernutrition -- The malabsorption syndrome -- The Dietary reference intakes: what are they and what do they mean? -- Dietary treatment of gastrointestinal diseases -- Macronutrient digestion, absorption, and metabolism -- Food allergies -- Dietary supplements: herbs and vitamins -- Prebiotics, probiotics, and dietary fiber -- Food and water safety: potential for bioterrorist attack -- Metabolic bone disease in gastrointestinal illness -- Nutrition in the elderly -- Nutrition and alcoholism -- Nutrition and diabetes mellitus -- Nutrition and colorectal cancer -- Nutritional support in inflammatory bowel disease -- Celiac disease -- Nutrition and liver disease -- Nutrition in chronic pancreatitis -- Nutritional support in acute pancreatitis -- Nutrition and gastrointestinal motility in health and disease -- Inborn errors of metabolism for the gastroenterologist -- Nutrition and cystic fibrosis -- Nutrition and gastrointestinal oncology -- The metabolic response to critical illness -- Clinical implications of oxidative stress and antioxidant therapy in gastrointestinal disease -- Perioperative nutritional support -- Dietary management in short bowel syndrome -- Nontransplant surgery for short bowel syndrome -- Intestinal transplantation -- The use of growth factors in short bowel syndrome -- Indications and contraindications to enteral and parenteral nutrition -- Vascular access for the patient receiving parenteral nutrition -- Parenteral nutrition formulas -- Pediatric parenteral nutrition -- Complications of long-term parenteral nutrition -- Complications of enteral nutrition -- Home parenteral nutrition in infants, children, and adults -- Administration routes for enteral nutrition -- Adult enteral nutrition: formulas and supplements -- Pediatric enteral formulas -- Home enteral nutrition -- Refeeding syndrome -- Medical, legal, and ethical aspects of nutritional support -- Medical management of obesity -- Control of food intake -- Surgical management of obesity -- Gastrointestinal complications of bariatric surgery -- Hyperlipidemia: genetic and nutritional considerations for the gastroenterologist -- Management of childhood obesity -- Nutritional support of obese and bariatric patients.
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Provides a practical guide that examines and explains the necessary elements and principles of nutrition. With more than 100 images and 180 tables, this unique and comprehensive text provides essential information to optimally and successfully manage patients. Some topics covered include: Nutritional assessment; Nutrition in critical care; Nutritional support; Management of intestinal failure; and, Obesity. Some gastrointestinal diseases covered include: Inflammatory bowel disease; Irritable bowel syndrome; Colon cancer; Pancreatititis; Heptic failure; and, Celiac sprue.