Clinical nutrition of the essential trace elements and minerals: the guide for health professionals

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"Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements and Minerals: The Guide for Health Professionals offers today's physicians, nutritionists, and dietitians an authoritative resource replete with sound dietary and medical advice suitable for daily use with their clients and patients."--Jacket. Dedication -- Series Introduction -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- pt. I. Basic Concepts, Consumption Deficiency, and Toxicity -- 1. The Essential Trace Element and Minerals: Basic Concepts -- 2. Possibly Essential Trace Elements -- 3. Consumption of Trace Elements and Minerals by Preagricultural Humans -- 4. Current Dietary Intakes of Trace Elements and Minerals -- 5. Laboratory Assessment of Trace Element and Mineral Status -- 6. The Epidemiology of Trace Element Deficiencies -- 7. Trace Element and Supplement Safety -- pt. II. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in: Healthy People -- 8. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in Human Pregnancy -- 9. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition During Loctation -- 10. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in Adolescents -- 11. Trace Element Requirements in the Elderly -- pt. III. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in Disease -- 12. Genetic Disorders of Trace Element Metabolism -- 13. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in Endocrine Diseases -- 14. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in Skeletal Health and Disease -- 15. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in Ischemic Heart Disease -- 16. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in Renal Disease -- 17. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in Gastrointestinal Disease -- 18. Immune Dysfunction in Iron, Copper, and Zinc Deficiencies -- 19. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in HIV Infection and AIDS: Implications for Host Defense -- 20. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in Hospital, Surgical, and Cancer Patients: Enteral and Parenteral of Nutrition -- 21. Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition in Diseases of the Eye -- App.: Journals and Current Books -- Index.