Williams’ (Williams 16th ed/16e) Basic Nutrition and & Diet Therapy Sixteenth Edition

• Case studies with accompanying questions for analysis in the clinical care chapters focus your attention on related patient care problems.
• Cultural Considerations boxes discuss how a patient’s culture can affect nutritional concepts in practice.
• Clinical Applications and For Further Focus boxes highlight timely topics and analyze concepts and trends in depth.
• Bulleted chapter summaries review highlights from the chapter and help you see how the chapter contributes to the book’s “big picture.”
• Diet therapy guidelines include recommendations, restrictions, and sample diets for major clinical conditions.
• Drug-Nutrient Interactions boxes highlight important safety information and cover topics such as nutritional supplements for athletics, drugs interfering with vitamin absorption, and over-the-counter weight loss aids.
• Key terms and definitions clarify terminology and concepts critical to your understanding and application of the material.