Nutritional Health - Strategies for Disease Prevention

This second expanded edition has been brought fully up-to-date to include all the new thinking and discoveries that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional advancement. The authors provide practical, data-driven integrated chapters covering the most important aspects of the complex interactions between diet, its nutrient components, and their impacts on disease states, and on those health conditions that increase the risk of chronic disease. Though obesity, weight control, diabetes, and other chronic diseases associated with obesity are emphasized, the major chronic diseases are all thoroughly reviewed, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer's, as well as age-related diseases. There is also a wealth of updated material on novel substances such as long-chain fatty acids, flavonoids, carotenoids, herbs, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, amino acids, and other dietary components, and on almost 100 websites to help readers identify excellent sources of information. Now going into its second much-expanded edition, the highly praised Nutritional Health, Strategies for Disease Prevention has been brought fully up to date to include all the new thinking and discoveries that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional advancement. The authors provide extensive, in-depth chapters covering the most important aspects of the complex interactions between diet, its nutrient components, and their impacts on disease states, and on those health conditions that increase the risk of chronic disease. Although obesity, weight control, diabetes, and other chronic diseases associated with obesity are emphasized, the major chronic diseases are all thoroughly reviewed, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease, as well as age-related diseases. There is also a wealth of updated material on novel substances, such as long-chain fatty acids, flavonoids, carotenoids, herbs, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, amino acids, and other dietary components, and on almost 100 websites to help readers identify excellent sources of information.
Up to date and comprehensive, Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention, Second Edition offers physicians, dietitians, and nutritionists a practical, data-driven, integrated resource to help evaluate the critical role of nutrition-especially in the at-risk populations-in optimizing health and preventing chronic illnesses.

Sommario

Impact of Nutritional Epidemiology
Barrie M. Margetts
Challenges in Research in Nutritional Epidemiology
David R. Jacobs, Jr.
The Nutrition Transition is Speeding Up: A Global Perspective
Barry M. Popkin
Medical Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes: Prioritizing Recommendations Based on Evidence
Marion J. Franz
Diet and the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes
Norman J. Temple and Nelia P. Steyn
Diet and the Control of Blood Lipids
Tricia L. Psota, Sarah K. Gebauer, Gigi Meyer, and Penny M. Kris-Etherton
Diet and Blood Pressure: Moving Beyond Preoccupation With Salt to Composite Dietary Patterns
Karen E. Charlton
Fish, n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, and Cardiovascular Disease
Jayne V. Woodside and Ian S. Young
Diet and Cancer Prevention
Cindy D. Davis and John A. Milner
Health Benefits of Phytochemicals in Whole Foods
Rui Hai Liu
Herbs as Useful Adjuncts to Manage Chronic Diseases
Winston J. Craig
What Are the Health Implications of Alcohol Consumption?
Eric Rimm and Norman J. Temple
Diet in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity
Sahaspahorn Paeratakul, George A. Bray, and Barry M. Popkin
Diets and Exercise Programs for Weight Loss
Lisa Sanders, Kathleen Page, Dena Bravata, and Marguerite Brainerd
The Developmental Origins of Chronic Disease in Adult Life
David J. P. Barker
Trends in Dietary Guidelines Around the Global Village
Jayne V. Woodside, Geraldine Cuskelly, and Norman J. Temple
Marketing Dietary Supplements for Health and Profit
Norman J. Temple and Diane H. Morris
Optimizing Nutrition for Exercise and Sports
Richard B. Kreider and Brian LeutholtzNovel Foods: Today's Functional Foods Marketplace
Jill K. Rippe
Functional Foods: A Critical Appraisal
Ted Wilson and David R. Jacobs, Jr.
Use of Biotechnology to Improve Food Production and Quality
Travis J. Knight and Donald C. Beitz
Food Industry and Political Influences on American Nutrition
Marion Nestle, Ted Wilson, and Audrey Balay-Karperien
Population Nutrition, Health Promotion, and Government Policy
Norman J. Temple and Marion Nestle
Dietary Intake, Cardiovascular Disease, and Sociodemographic Characteristics
Lyn M. Steffen
Core Concepts in Nutritional Anthropology
Sera L. Young and Gretel H. Pelto
Nutrition on the Internet
Tony Helman
Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: David R. Jacobs (Editore), Norman J. Temple (Editore), Ted Wilson (Editore)
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9781588294548
• ISBN: 978-1-58829-454-8
• Pagine: 488
• Peso: 2 g
• Illustrazioni: 28 SW-Abb., 1 Farbabb., 28 SW-Zeichn.
• Serie: Nutrition and Health; Nutrition and Health
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina