The food you eat has a strong influence on your health & on your chances of developing heart disease & some types of cancer. This book is aimed at people who are basically healthy to help them understand nutrition & choose a diet that will keep them in good health. The book provides an overview of nutrition explaining the process of digestion & your need for energy protein fat carbohydrates vitamins & minerals. These sections include the science of nutrition good food sources & links with illnesses. The book will help you make informed choices about your diet & explain how to make sense of the nutritional labeling on food packets. ...

* Gives students the tools to prepare for each element of the new controlled assessment with complete confidence.* Write-in format for work-on-the-go highlights what students need to do independently.* Provides valuable advice on how to structure the task & help students tackle their research planning & writing.* Provides skills-focussed advice on how to conduct the task & understand the mark scheme. ...

Focused exam preparation to get the grades you want! Featuring an array of engaging & thought-provoking activities this Student Book equips students with the core skills & understanding they need to reach their full potential at GCSE. Exciting engaging activities help students develop a broad range of skills & consolidate understanding & updated case studies put learning into a real-world context. Grade Studio activities provide practice exam-style questions model answers & examiners' comments & advice to help students understand what to do to get the right grade. ...

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The carefully sequenced content ensures a logical build-up of key ideas & cross-referencing between chapters enables pupils to integrate all aspects of the subject. Each chapter is broken into manageable short sections for ease of use & ends with a set of data-response questions. The Fieldwork Appendix provides practical guidelines for preparing & conducting field-work & there are ideas for practical work which link to each chapter. ...

With health & social care increasingly asked to work in partnership many existing textbooks & educational opportunities are too uni-professional to be able to respond fully to the joined-up services agenda. Against this background this book provides a comprehensive & up-to-date analysis of both health & social care. The book packed with student-friendly features
Includes:: * a focus on both health & social care in a time of increasing interagency working; * a combined summary of current policy & practice dilemmas with useful theoretical frameworks; * service user-focused case studies & reflective exercises to aid further study & analysis; * comparative material throughout exploring relevant issues their impact & lessons learned. With partnership working now part of core business rather than an optional extra this book is essential reading for anyone studying or working in health & social care. It provides practical material to populate the theoretical & conceptual knowledge of social policy students & conceptual material to help make sense of the practical experience of professional students on training courses. Health & social care practitioners will find the book of value informing their continuing professional development. Jon Glasby is a qualified social worker & head of health & social care at the Health Services Management Centre University of Birmingham.
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Over 50 per cent of the population has arthritis in one or more of their joints. By the time you are 75 years old there is an 85 per cent chance that you will have developed arthritis somewhere particularly in the larger joints such as the hip or knee. Treatment of arthritis can be either medical with the provision of drugs & other non-invasive therapies or surgical. The purpose of this book is to look at the various surgical solutions. Despite the frequency of surgery there are few places a patient may go to learn about the relative merits & disadvantages of surgery; we hope this book will help fill that gap. ...

This third edition of Understanding Housing Defects provides a concise coherent & comprehensive introduction to the causes investigation & diagnosis of defects in domestic buildings. Each chapter covers a specific building element &

Includes:: a brief introduction setting out construction principles & the evolution of current practice. The chapters then go on to look at the identification cause & diagnosis of common (and sometimes not so common) defects. The text has been revised & extended with new sections on boundary walls chimneys & basements. The Services chapter has been replaced with three new more substantial chapters on heating & plumbing electrical installations & drainage. This book is a must have for all those students & practitioners who require a broad understanding of housing defects. Building surveyors architects estate agents & anyone involved in property construction & housing will benefit hugely from this highly informative full colour text.

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How does a fertilized egg become a person? How do the processes which shape the common features of human development also produce the rich variety of individual diversity? Understanding Human Development" explores these questions in a lively & wide-ranging survey of the subject offering both a topical & a chronological view of development. The author critically reviews research on human development from the earliest studies to the theories & issues of the 21st century including recent breakthroughs in neuropsychology cross-cultural psychology & in the application of dynamic systems theory. Coverage of methodology & ethics combined with thorough revision summaries in each chapter make this an invaluable introduction for students of developmental psychology. The textbook is supplemented by a Companion Website featuring a range of study tools such as Chapter Summaries Study Skills FAQ with links to useful websites & an interview with the author." ...

Virtually everyone has had indigestion at some time & for most people it's simply a minor nuisance. More often than not it happens when you've overindulged or eaten something that doesn't agree with you & it only lasts for a short time. For some people the symptoms can be persistent & so severe that they interfere with everyday life. The symptoms may be caused by some undiagnosed problem within the digestive system which needs to be properly identified & treated by a doctor. This book will help you distinguish between minor symptoms which you can safely treat yourself & those that need further investigation. ...