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This pocket book provides a template for common nutritional calculations. It provides contemporary evidence regarding anthropomorphic formulae and predictions and examines there value to health maintenance. It consists of eight chapters ranging from simple formula computing waist hip ration to more complex predictions determining basal metabolic rate. It includes cut off points and categorization tables, the book also provides a framework for interpretation. Systematic stepwise examples of each computation is demonstrated in each chapter. Every segment includes multiple practical scenarios and questions that are structured to assist the health care worker master nutritional computations. Written in simple language, comprising health related scenarios, convenient and hand, this guide is apt for health professionals in training and practice.

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Donnette Wright-Myrie is a Lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Nutrition, Biochemistry and Diet Therapy. She is also the author of books-Computations in Nutrition: a guide to health care workers as well as several scholarly articles on nutrition and health. She is an academic editor for the Academic Journal Series. She is a registered nurse and is completing post graduate work in nursing and nutrition. She is married and is the proud mother of a gregarious and candid son. She dedicates her work to activities related to the Millenium Development Goals particularly number 1; to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Her work is situated in improving epidemiological outcomes through nutritional interventions. She has volunteered widely in providing nutritional talks, nutritional screening and serving as judge at nutritional fairs. Donnette is a social being and resides in Kingston, Jamaica.

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