The Essential Pocket Guide for Clinical Nutrition

Now featuring a fresh new design, the latest guidelines, the most recent information on disease and nutritional conditions, and all-new online resources, this affordable Second Edition of The Essential Pocket Guide for Clinical Nutrition is a quick-access resource ideal for dietitians, students, interns, and other health professionals who are actively engaged in clinical nutrition. Pocket-sized and spiral bound for ease of use, this essential quick-reference resource offers immediate, need-to-know information on nutritional assessment, life stage assessment, and nutrition support, as well as nutrition considerations for specific diseases/conditions―bariatric surgery, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, gastrointestinal diseases, liver and pancreatic diseases, renal diseases, and pulmonary diseases.

Mary Width is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Coordinated Program in Dietetics at Wayne State University. She teaches Nutritional Assessment, Advanced Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition Management, and also coordinates the supervised practice for the dietetic students. Past work experiences include clinical nutrition, clinical management, food service management, long-term care consulting, and private counseling in the areas of childhood obesity and eating disorders. Mary is also Co-Director of Clinical Nutrition at the WSU School of Medicine. She currently serves as the website manager for both the Michigan Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Southeastern Michigan Dietetic Association (SEMDA). She was Past President and Membership Chair for several years for SEMDA, and Past President of the Michigan Nutrition and Dietetic Educators and Preceptors (MiNDEP) group.