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Salient Features - - A comprehensive Food Exchange manual which presents food group exchanges, helpful to homescience and nursing students, teachers, dietitians, nurses, nutritionists for therapeutic meal planning. - Provides revised Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA, 2010, by NIN), ICMR, current Anthropometric and Biochemical lab cut off values. - A ready reckoner for calories along with the nutritive value as per portion sizes of the commonly consumed dishes, ready to eat commercially available foods and household measures. - Suggests high food sources of various nutrients for reference and dietary considerations for Medical Nutrition Therapy in disease management. - Newer concepts in Health and wellness – Antioxidants, Prebiotics, Probiotics, Nutrigenomics, etc. Contents - 1. Introduction 2. Nutrients Insight 3. Effect of Cooking 4. Newer Concepts Significant for Human Nutrition 5. Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) 6. Exchange List 7. Food Exchange Choices 8. Calories Per 100g of Edible Portion 9. Household Measures 10. Ready Calorie Reckoner of Foodstuffs 11. Ready Reckoner of Food sources for Therapeutic use in MNT 12. Dietary Supplements 13. Anthropometric Cut Offs 14. Energy Calculator and Physical Activity 15. Clinical and Biochemical Parameters 16. Conversions Applicable for Therapeutic Use Abbreviations
