245 14 |a The building blocks of life : |b a nutrition foundation for healthcare professionals / |c TC Callis.

520 __ |a "Within the United Kingdom (UK), most mainstream healthcare practitioners receive little or no nutrition education during their years of training. As a consequence, the understanding of nutrition amongst general practitioners, pharmacists, midwives, and practice nurses is limited, and is largely focused on energy consumption and obesity. There is little knowledge of the wealth of micronutrients that underpin health, nor of the ticking timebomb of insufficient intakes of those micronutrients amongst a significant proportion of the population in the UK. The Building Blocks of Life: A Nutrition Foundation for Healthcare Professionals is a step towards redressing that balance. It sets out an informative and engaging narrative on how and why nutrition is the basis for good health. It discusses the UK specific issues with regards to diet and intakes of vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and other micronutrients. It also raises concerns around the potential negative health implications of the generally poor UK diet, and suggests ways that healthcare practitioners can support patients in improving their long-term health outlook"-- |c Provided by publisher.