Sports Nutrition for Health Professionals 2nd Edition

Natalie Digate Muth, Michelle Murphy Zive
F.A. Davis
408 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0803676121
August 2019

• Features the unfolding case studies of six different clients to illustrate major nutritional principles and how they apply in practice, including a series of assessments by a variety of health professions and self-administered tests designed to evaluate and optimize their nutritional status.

• Evaluating the Evidence boxes, in which students learn to think critically to understand, interpret, and use the results of peer-reviewed research studies.

• Speed Bumps—or review questions highlighting the major points of the preceding several paragraphs—to help students stop and comprehend what they just read

• A Key Points Summary at the end of each chapter that distills the main learning points from the chapter into a succinct list of critical take-home points.

• Addresses the role of nutrition in each major allied health profession and highlights its relevance to that field throughout the text.