Computations in Nutrition: A Guide for Healthcare Workers

This pocket book provides a template for common nutritional calculations. It provides contemporary evidence regarding anthropometric formulae and predictions and examines their value to health maintenance. It consists of eight chapters ranging from simple formula computing waist hip ratio to more complex predictions determining basal metabolic rate. It includes cut-off points and categorization tables, the book also provides a framework for interpretation. Systematic stepwise examples of each computation is demonstrated in each chapter. Every segment includes multiple practical scenarios and questions that are structured to assist the health care worker master nutritional computations. Written in simple language, comprising health related scenarios, convenient and hand, this guide is apt for health professionals in training and practice.