Lutz’s
Nutrition and
Diet Therapy

The seventh edition of Lutz’s Nutrition and Diet Therapy is
designed to provide the beginning student with knowledge
of the fundamentals of nutrition related to the promotion
and maintenance of optimal health. Practical applications
and treatment of pathologies with nutritional components

are stressed. In addition, basic scientific information is in-
troduced to enable students to begin to understand nutri-
tional issues reported in the mass media. The sequential

introduction of material continues to be a unique feature
of this text.