Artificial Nutrition Support in Clinical Practice
Contributors: Jason Payne-James (Editor); George K. Grimble (Editor); David B. A. Silk (Editor)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Greenwich Medical Media
Published: April 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 798
ISBN-13: 9781900151979
Subjects: Dietetics & nutrition; Metabolism; Nutrition; Biotechnological Products; Diet Therapy; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Medical / General
First sentence: Starvation has often been described as producing a series of stereotyped metabolic changes, such as progressive diminution in resting and total energy expenditure, a progressive decrease in the proportion of endogenous energy derived from protein mobilisation and an increase in the proportion derived from fat and ketone bodies.