ABSTRACT
Case Studies in Physiology and Nutrition is a book of short stories about ctional individuals who have a health problem. The book is written to help you integrate your knowledge of physiology with that of your knowledge of nutrition. Each chapter provides stories about hypothetical individuals. You will need to review your knowledge about nutrition, physiology, and elementary biochemistry. Your instructor will choose cases that relate directly to an area you are currently studying. Your instructor might use these cases in a variety of ways to help you understand the system(s) you are studying. For example, a case study could be assigned as homework or used as a subject of discussion during lecture or used as part of a laboratory exercise. As you read the stories, make a list of all the systems in the body that are involved in the particular situation being described. Take the time to list all of the terms you do not know and look them up. A good medical dictionary will be helpful. Use all of the resources at hand: your textbooks, your library, your computer, your class notes, and so on. When you prepare your answers to the questions posed at the end of each story, be sure to acknowledge your sources of information. Use superscripts to designate the source and then at the end of your write-up, list these sources in order of use. Be sure to provide complete information for the source including the authors, publication title and volume (if from a multivolume source such as a scientic journal), year of publication, and inclusive pages. Do not use sources that are not refereed. In other words, do not use sources intended for the lay reader such as popular magazines or nonscientic Web sites. Web sites sponsored by scientic organizations, for example, USDA, National Academy of Sciences, National Institutes of Health, American Institute of Nutrition, American Physiology Society, and American Diabetes Association, are reliable sources of information. Some of these Web sites are listed in Table 1.1.
