Publisher's Synopsis
This important new publication provides a comprehensive and up-to-date consensus on a variety of aspects of clinical nutrition. The volume has been prepared to mark ten years of the Leeds Course in Clinical Nutrition, which has established itself as the major clinical nutrition course in the UK and Europe. An international and authoritative team of contributors has been drawn together to reflect the strengths of the Leeds course and provide a self-contained publication which will benefit all professionals involved in the nutritional management of patients. One of the special features of the publication is that in addition to providing practical advice on nutritional management, it also encompasses the basic scientific background, including physiology, biochemistry and immunology. In addition there are helpful and practical chapters on individual clinical states in which nutrition is often a problem.
