Table of Contents

1. An econutrition approach to health
PART 1: Your Professional Toolkit
2. The toolkit for nutrition practice
3. Evaluating the reliability of nutrition information
PART 2: Food Systems
4. Food systems and security
5. Food processing
6. Food safety: Regulation, risk analysis and food chemicals
7. Food safety:Microbiological risks
PART 3: Food, Nutrients and Other Bioactive Food Components
8. Food groups and diets
9. Food digestion
10. Macronutrients: Proteins
11. Macronutrients: Fats
12. Macronutrients: Carbohydrates
13. Macronutrients: Food energy
14. Macronutrients: Water
15. Alcohol
16. Micronutrients: Vitamins
17. Micronutrients: Minerals
18. Phytonutrients as bioactive food components
19. Food-based guidance systems
PART 4: Nutrition Across the Life-Course
20. Pregnancy and lactation
21. Infancy, childhood and adolescence
22. Adults and the later years
PART 5: Nutrition Assessment, Monitoring and Surveillance
23. Assessing and evaluating nutritional status, diets and physical activity
24. Nutrition monitoring and surveillance
PART 6: Food, The Environment and Society
25. Nutritional economics
26. Sustainable food and nutrition practice
27. Social and cultural influences on food and nutrition
28. Understanding food and nutrition for Indigenous peoples
29. International nutrition and health
PART 7: Nutritional Biology and Ecohealth Disorders
30. Nutritional biology
31. Ecohealth disorders
32. Disordered system functions
33. Disordered organ functions
34. Mental health disorders
35. Food and health: Life-long learning and action
Index

About the Author

MARK WAHLQVIST held the first Australian Chair of Human Nutrition, at Deakin University, and was Professor and Head of Medicine at Monash University and the Monash Medical Centre. He has held senior appointments at universities, medical centres and research institutes in Australia, Sweden, Indonesia, Taiwan and mainland China, and was president of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences and editor-­in­-chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

DANIELLE GALLEGOS is Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics at Queensland University of Technology and a Fellow of the Dietitians Association of Australia.