Biochemistry and Nutrition for BSc (Nursing) Manjula Shantaram
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1Biochemistry and Nutrition for BSc (Nursing)
2Biochemistry and Nutrition for BSc (Nursing)
Manjula Shantaram MSc, PhD, FAGE, FABMS Associate Professor of Biochemistry Yenepoya Medical and Dental College Nithyanandanagar, Mangalore Karnataka, India Forewords BM Hegde Susan Anand
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4With modesty and respect
to
The Honorable Chancellor of Yenepoya University
and
The Chairman of Islamic Academy of Education
Al-Haj Yenepoya Abdulla Kunhi
5Foreword
In the electrobiochemical model of human physiology, biochemistry forms a very important foundation. Medical students, who do not have a deeper understanding of chemistry, find it hard to grasp the principles of biochemistry easily in their first year in the medical school. A good textbook that explains the various nuances of that subject in an easy-to-understand style is the need of the hour. Dr Manjula Shantaram's book fills that void very well.
As a good student and a professor of biochemistry in a medical school, Manjula is well suited to write the book. I was pleased to go through the chapters written in simple English and lucid style. The chapters are well thought out and well presented. She has followed the syllabus of the University in letter and spirit.
The style is praiseworthy. The subject is divided into small side headings that are very important to understand the subject as also to answer questions in the examination. The chapter on the energy requirement of the body is very well presented to make the subject so easy even for a novice to understand and remember easily. The other chapters follow suit. Balanced diet chapter gives clear-cut diagrams that can easily be replicated in the examination papers.
Nutritional importance of biomolecules chapter has some beautiful pictures that make learning a pleasure. Similar pictures adore other chapters in relevant pages. The font, layout, as also the printing are excellent. I would have loved to have a textbook like this if I were a student now in first MBBS class. I dare say that this book could be a value addition to any good practicing doctor's library as a ready reference to give a patient a diet chart or to understand the nuts and bolts of metabolic abnormalities, like diabetic ketoacidosis. All in all, this is a praiseworthy addition to the hoards of textbooks in the medical schools.
6While I compliment Manjula for bringing out this book, I commend the publishers for an excellent job well done. I can easily rate this book very high and wish that the book benefits a large section of students for years to come although, I hope, Manjula will have newer editions fast enough to keep pace with the rapid pace of information pouring into this field of knowledge.
BM Hegde
MD, FRCP (London) FRCP (Edinburgh)
FRCP (Glasgow), FRCPI (Dublin), FACC
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Science of Healing Outcomes and
Former Dean, Director Professor, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
Former Visiting Professor of Cardiology, London University, London
Professor of Human Health, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Former Vice Chancellor, Manipal University, Manipal, India
7Foreword
Comprehensive Nursing Practice is based on application of knowledge derived from physical, biological and behavioral sciences, medicine and nursing. Hence, the importance of sound knowledge of biochemical processes in diseases cannot be undermined. The subject of biochemistry becomes meaningful and interesting to students only when they are able to discern normal biochemical composition and functioning of human body and specific alterations in the biochemistry in disease conditions.
I congratulate the author of this book Dr Manjula Shantaram, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Yenepoya Medical College, Deralakatte for her venture of writing a textbook for nursing students, which is written in a simple and lucid language keeping in mind the needs of the students for a user-friendly textbook.
Susan Anand
Former Principal
Yenepoya Nursing College
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
8Preface
This textbook Biochemistry and Nutrition for BSc (Nursing) is compiled with the objective of providing a simple, concise, comprehensive and yet easily understandable course material of biochemistry for BSc Nursing students.
The chapters are selected as per the latest syllabus prescribed by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India for graduate nurses in the first year of their course.
Since there are very few textbooks available on biochemistry for graduate nurses, I have made an attempt to venture into this area. While evaluating the RGUHS answer scripts of Biochemistry of BSc Nursing students, I had determined to complete the compilation process which was begun a couple of months ago.
Instead of blaming the students for their bad answers, let us provide them a textbook with easy-to-understand text, self-explanatory flow charts, attractive diagrams, self-assessment, multiple choice questions and repeatedly asked questions in the RGUHS examinations during the last ten years. This would definitely help the students to equip themselves better to face the University examinations.
I welcome criticism along with useful suggestions and comments from the students and faculty for the improvement of this textbook.
Manjula Shantaram
9Acknowledgments
I am grateful to the almighty God for giving me strength, perseverance, patience, health and time to compile the matter for this textbook.
I gratefully acknowledge the blessings of my mother, late Smt Savithri R Kamath, father, Dr Ranganath R Kamath and my aunt, Dr Meera R Kamath for instilling in me the joy of teaching, love of scholarship and the value of being organized.
I am thankful to my husband, Mr Shantaram Gadiyar and son, Mr Vivek Gadiyar who graciously overlooked my preoccupied nature while I spent long hours with chapters of this book.
I am grateful to Dr Ronald Roche of Microbiology Department of Yenepoya Medical College for having contributed a small chapter on immunological aspects. I am thankful to Dr Ganesh Prasad V and Dr Nivedita L Rao of Biochemistry Department for their contribution in some chapters.
This book would never have been accomplished without the encouragement and support of my colleagues and associates, Mrs Vidya Bernhardt, Mr Eric Christopher Lobo and Dr U Raghavendra.
My heartfelt thanks are due to Ms Pramila for her excellent clerical work.
My gratitude is extended to M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd., New Delhi, India for bringing out this book to my utmost satisfaction.1011