Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principles of clinical nutrition: contrasting the practice of nutrition in health and disease / Marinos Elia -- Nutritional screening and assessment / Marinos Elia and Rebecca J. Stratton -- Water and electrolytes / Abeed H. Chowdhury and Dileep N. Lobo -- Overnutrition / Gema Frühbeck -- Undernutrition / Anura V. Kurpad and Isabelle Aeberli -- Metabolic disorders / Luc Tappy and Jean-Marc Schwarz -- Eating disorders / Kate Williams -- Adverse reactions to foods / Simon H. Murch -- Nutritional support / Esther van den Hogen, Marian AE van Bokhorst-de van der Schueren and Cora F. Jonkers-Schuitema -- Ethics and nutrition / Clare McNaught and John MacFie -- The gastrointestinal tract / Miquel A. Gassull and Eduard Cabré -- Nutrition in liver disease / Mathias Plauth and Tatjana Schütz -- Nutrition and the pancreas / Jean-Fabien Zazzo, Paula McGurk and Marinos Elia -- The kidney / Roberta Situlin and Gianfranco Guarnieri -- Nutritional and metabolic support in hematologic malignancies and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation / Maurizio Muscaritoli ... [et al.] -- The lung / Peter Collins and Marinos Elia -- Nutrition and immune and inflammatory systems / Bruce R. Bistrian and Robert F. Grimble -- The heart and blood vessels / Kate Gatenby, Stephen Wheatcroft and Mark Kearney -- Nutritional aspects of disease affecting the skeleton / Christine Rodda -- Nutrition in surgery and trauma / Olle Ljungqvist and Ken Fearon -- Infectious diseases / Nicholas I. Paton, Miguel A. Gassull and Eduard Cabré -- Nutritional support in patients with cancer / Federico Bozzetti -- Paediatric nutrition / Anthony F. Williams -- Cystic fibrosis / John A. Dodge -- Illustrative cases / Simon P. Allison.