Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics

Dr Joan Gandy is a Registered Dietitian who has worked as a dietitian in a variety of settings. She studied for her PhD while working at the MRC's Clinical Research Centre. She worked at Oxford Brookes University as a Senior Research Fellow and helped set up an MSc in Public Nutrition (Nutrition) at Westminster University. Her main areas of research are hydration, public health, and energy balance.Dr Angela Madden is a Registered Dietitian. She graduated from the University of Surrey and worked as a clinical dietitian in the NHS for 11 years before becoming a Research Fellow at the Royal Free Hospital. She was awarded her PhD for her thesis entitled Nutritional Status and Body Composition in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease. She has continued her career as a lecturer at London Metropolitan University and more recently at the University of Hertfordshire where she leads a team of dietitians and nutritionists involved in teaching and research.Prof Michelle Holdsworth is a Registered Public Health Nutritionist (UK Nutrition Society) and a Registered Dietitian. After working in various NHS hospital and community dietetics posts in the UK, she developed research interests in evaluating the effectiveness of community nutrition projects and went on to study for a PhD in Public Health Nutrition at the University of Leicester. She has worked as Chargée de Recherche for the French National Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)for 8 years altogether, based in the UMR NUTRIPASS (Joint Research Unit on Food & Nutrition Research Global South), where her research is focused on changing food environments and dietary behaviours in Africa. She has worked for 12 years at the Universities of Nottingham and Sheffield in the UK, initially as Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor and subsequently Full Professor.

Review from previous edition "This book fills an important gap...ideal for the busy practitioner or scholar of other disciplines who is eager to learn more about nutrition but hasn't the time to do a lot of reading. Quick, concise and accurate information...highly commended."

• 1: Introduction to nutrition 2: Dietary reference values and food-based dietary guidelines 3: Current dietary patterns in the UK 4: Nutrition assessment 5: Macronutrients and energy balance 6: Micronutrients 7: Electrolytes and fluid balance 8: Food labelling, functional foods, nutrigenetics, and nutrigenomics and food supplements 9: Non-nutrient components of food 10: Nutrition and catering in institutions 11: Popular diets 12: Diet before and during pregnancy 13: Infants and preschool children 14: School-aged children and adolescents 15: Older people 16: Nutrition in vulnerable population groups 17: Nutrition intervention with patients and individuals 18: Nutrition policy 19: Healthy and sustainable diets 20: Global nutrition 21: Obesity 22: Diabetes 23: Cardiovascular disease 24: Cancer and leukaemia 28: Nutrition support 26: Nutrition in gastrointestinal diseases 27: Pancreatic disease 28: Liver disease 29: Renal disease 30: Respiratory disease and cystic fibrosis 31: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection 32: Nutrition in mental health 33: Nutrition in neurological conditions 34: Rheumatology, dermatology, and bone health 35: Palliative care 36: Inherited metabolic disorders 37: Food hypersensitivity 38: Drug-nutrient interactions and prescription of nutritional products