Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Principles of Healthy Nutrition 1
Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos, Meropi Kontogianni and Evangelia Manglara

2 Nutritional Assessment 27
Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos

3 Malnutrition 37
Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos

4 Weight Management and Eating Disorders 45
Nikolaos Katsilambros and Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos

5 Diabetes 61
Nikolaos Katsilambros and Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos

6 Hypertension and Cardiovascular Diseases 79
Meropi Kontogianni

7 Gastrointestinal Diseases 93
Meropi Kontogianni

8 Renal Disease 127
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia

9 Pulmonary Diseases 139
Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos, Meropi Kontogianni and Kalliopi-Anna Poulia

10 Life Expectancy 143
Evangelia Manglara

11 HIV/AIDS 147
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia

12 Metabolic Stress 155
Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos

13 Neoplastic Diseases 163
Meropi Kontogianni

14 Rheumatic Diseases 171
Meropi Kontogianni

15 Nutrition and Anaemias 181
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia

16 Neurological and Mental Disorders 187
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia

17 Enteral Nutrition 197
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia

18 Parenteral Nutrition 205
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia

19 Food Allergy 213
Meropi Kontogianni

Index 217

About the Author

Professor Nikolaos Katsilambros, Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the First Department of Propaedeutic Medicine Athen's University School of Medicine and Director of the Diabetes Centre, Laiko University Hospital, Athens, Greece

Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos MMedSci.SRD.PGDipDiet

Meropi D Kontogianni, PhD

Evangelia Manglara RD

Kalliopi-Anna Poulia, MMedSci

Reviews

“This is an excellent clinical guide to nutrition that I recommend to all nurses, midwives, nursing and medical students and dieticians.”  (Cancer Nursing Practice, 1 April 2012) "This is an excellent clinical guide to nutrition that I recommend to all nurses, midwives, nursing and medical students and dieticians." (Nursing Standard, 11 January 2012)