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Zusatztext When we walk into a grocery store, we are really entering a pharmacy with precious nutrients and potentially dangerous toxins. The power of nutrition in enhancing our most innovative medical interventions as well as avoiding their need become readily apparent in this well organized, comprehensive work that is an essential textbook for healers around the world. The sacredness of food is often forgotten and leads to many of the chronic illnesses that ail modern society. This text reminds us of the strong scientific foundation for arguing that healing starts with our diet.—Mehmet Oz, M.D., Professor and Vice-Chair of Surgery, New York Presbyterian/ Columbia HospitalThis book is an excellent in depth review of the evidence to support the role of nutrition in health promotion and disease prevention. This book should be read by all those who strive to improve the health of the people they serve. It should certainly be a well-read addition to the library of every health care provider who wants to use an evidence-based approach to treating and caring for their patients. Dr. Kohlstadt has pulled together a wonderful array of scientists and clinicians who have brought the science and practice of medicine into one compendium.—Miriam Alexander, MD, MPH, Director, General Preventive Medicine Residency Program and Director, Mid-Atlantic Public Health Training Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthAdvancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients is a wealthy string of clinical pearls, this book maximizes the subtle and significant effects of food and nutritional supplements. It represents a unique collaborative, written by leaders in naturopathic and allopathic medicine. Current, with relevant research and practical details, it merits a place on any naturopathic physician’s shelf or teaching library.This work should empower practitioners to better follow Hippocrates admonition to "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food".—Dr. Michael J. Cronin, ND, Naturopathic Physicians Group, President, American Assoc. of Naturopathic Physicians, and Chair, Naturopathic Physicians Research InstituteDr. Kohlstadt has edited an up-to-date, comprehensive, massive yet easy-to-navigate guide for using nutrition to improve health …Well laid-out and very helpful treatment-oriented nutritional guidance. … Will become a favorite go-to handbook for any practitioner wanting to use nutrition to improve others’ health….The breadth and scope of this new book by Dr. Kohlstadt is truly immense. Down-home, real-life, scientific rationale for incorporating nutrition into practice. …Comprehensive and massive enough to satisfy detail-oriented practitioners, but also edited to be a quick and handy guide for practices.—Luke R. Bucci, PhD, CCN, CNS, Research & Scientific Affairs Specialist, Schiff Nutrition InternationalThis is not just a second edition, this is volume II - filled with new chapters, topics, updates, authors. Together they provide valuable information and indispensable source of reference for medical practitioners and especially any busy Integrative Medicine Clinic like ours. The consistent and practice friendly format give the book a uniform, accessible feel, all to the credit of a strong editor, Dr. Kohlstadt.—John C. Pan, M.D., Clinical Professor, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, The George Washington University Medical CenterWe live in a time a great transition. Millions more people are suffering from diseases associated with too few calories, protein, or vital nutrients each year, while even a greater number are still suffering from overnutrition. Evidence continues to mount that nutrition, along with exercise, other key lifestyle factors, and decisions regarding environmental exposure are fundamental to health, well-being, and compression of morbidity in association with medicine and genetics. This book, Advancing Food and Nutrition, is, perhaps, the most important comp...
