**American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 3rd Place in Adult Primary Care, 2024****Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Nutrition**Master the essentials of nutrition science and patient care with this concise text! Williams’ Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 13th Edition helps you understand and apply nutrition concepts in the treatment of disease, disease prevention, and life enhancement. The text is broken out into three parts: the basics of nutrients and the body, the life cycle and community nutrition, and clinical nutrition. Case studies help you determine nutritional interventions in treating both acute and chronic conditions. Written by nutrition specialists Joyce Gilbert and Eleanor D. Schlenker, this book includes the latest advances in research and evidence-based practice. Strong community focus includes robust coverage of health promotion, cultural competence, patient safety, lifespan, and public health issuesPerson-centered approach helps you develop practical solutions to individual problems, based on the authors’ personal research and clinical experienceMyPlate for Older Adults is included, as developed by nutrition scientists at Tufts University and the AARP Foundation, along with the Nestlé Mini Nutritional Assessment ScaleHealth Promotion sections help you with nutrition education, stressing healthy lifestyle choices and prevention as the best medicineCase studies provide opportunities for problem solving, allowing you to apply concepts to practical situations in nutrition careEvidence-Based Practice boxes emphasize critical thinking and summarize current research findingsFocus on Culture boxes highlight cultural competence and the nutritional deficiencies, health problems, and appropriate interventions relating to different cultural, ethnic, racial, and age groupsFocus on Food Safety boxes alert you to food safety issues related to a particular nutrient, population group, or medi
