Preventive Nutrition
The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 2013
XXI, 581 pages
978-1-4757-6242-6 (ISBN)
Description
Leading medical authorities and clinicians comprehensively review and critically assess the newest nutritional approaches to preventing or delaying disease processes to create the single most comprehensive resource for health professionals seeking to improve individual health outcomes through nutrition. Along the way these distinguished scientists develop specific nutrient recommendations and illuminate not only the relationship between diet on the one hand and cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes on the other, but also the dietary prevention of cataracts, osteoporosis, and immune dysfunction. In addition, they examine the exciting current research linking nutritional status with the prevention of birth defects, as well as with the optimization of the health and intellectual capacity of children. Their pathbreaking reviews clearly spell out the public health implications of preventive nutrition strategies for the US and Europe, as well as emerging nations and developing countries worldwide.
Reviews / Votes
"...an excellent source for the healthcare practitioner who wants to more clearly understand all the pertinent issues in nutrition as they relate to the current health of his or her patients...strongly recommend[ed] to anyone in the field of primary care or nutrition...for...quick reference." -Journal of the American College of Nutrition"...easy to read...It could provide invaluable information to those developing nutrition intervention strategies and would make an invaluable resource to seek and purchase for reference libraries." -Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
"...this book is highly recommended, not only for its practical and objective coverage of many important nutritional and health issues, but also for the concise summaries and specific recommendations on them at the end of each chapter." -Food and Nutrition Bulletin
"This book should appeal to a broad audience of nutritionists, dietitians, healthcare providers, educators, and a substantial number of the lay public...The chapters have an abundance of tables and a modest number of figures that summarize the findings of a large number of scientific investigations....This is an outstanding book....It is a very important contribution that will be of great value to many healthcare workers in the U.S. and abroad. It serves as a milepost of important nutritional measures for the prevention of chronic disease."4 STARS-Doody's Health Science Book Review Journal
"...an excellent resource for public health professionals looking for accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive information on current research and recommendations on nutrition in the prevention of disease and disability." -Canadian Journal of Public Health
"...an important resource for physicians interested in nutrition...provides a scientific basis to evaluate the health claims of nutritional products [and] answer the nutritional inquiries of patients...nothing quite like it in scope and achievement for dealing with preventive nutrition." -Endocrinologist
"...should find a place on the bookshelves of all health profesionals who recognise the role of diet in health promotion; in particular, dieticians, nutritionists and medical practitioners who are regularly faced with questions on nutrition and disease prevention." -South African Medical Journal
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Totowa
United States
Publishing group
Humana Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XXI, 581 p. 13 illus.
File size
78,73 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4757-6242-6 (9781475762426)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-6242-6
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Adrianne Bendich | Richard J. Deckelbaum
Preventive Nutrition
The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals
E-Book
03/2001
2nd Edition
Humana
€85.59
Available for download
Additional editions
Adrianne Bendich | R.J. Deckelbaum
Preventive Nutrition
The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals
Book
02/1997
Humana Press Inc.
€100.28
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Content
1 Public Health Implications of Preventive Nutrition.- 2 Diet and Childhood Cancer: Preliminary Evidence.- 3 Prevention of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Cancers.- 4 Diet and Nutrition in the Etiology and Primary Prevention of Colon Cancer.- 5 Nutrition and Breast Cancer.- 6 Preventive Nutrition and Lung Cancer.- 7 Nonnutritive Components in Foods as Modifiers of the Cancer Process.- 8 Dietary Fat and Coronary Heart Disease.- 9 Antioxidant Vitamins and Cardiovascular Disease.- 10 Iron and Heart Disease: A Review of the Epidemiologic Data.- 11 Homocysteine, Folic Acid, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk.- 12 Omega-3 Fatty Acids from Fish: Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.- 13 The Relationship Between Nutritional Factors and Age-Related Macular Degeneration.- 14 Antioxidant Status and Risk for Cataract.- 15 Osteoporosis: Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Micronutrients.- 16 Antioxidant Nutrients and Prevention of Oxidant-Mediated, Smoking-Related Diseases.- 17 Micronutrients and Immunity in Older People.- 18 Impact of Vitamin A on Immunity and Infection in Developing Countries.- 19 Folic Acid-Containing Multivitamins and Primary Prevention of Birth Defects.- 20 Nutritional Prevention of DNA Damage to Sperm and Consequent Risk Reduction in Birth Defects and Cancer in Offspring.- 21 Maternal Nutrition and Preterm Delivery.- 22 Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids for Optimal Neurodevelopment: Recommendations for Perinatal Nutrition.- 23 Potential Benefits of Preventive Nutrition Strategies: Lessons for the United States.- 24 Nutrient Addition to Foods: The Public Health Impact in Countries with Rapidly Westernizing Diets.- 25 Nutrition and Food Policy in Norway: Effects on Reduction of Coronary Heart Disease.- 26 Prevention of Pediatric Obesity: Examining the Issues and Forecasting Research Directions.- 27 Effect of Westernization of Nutritional Habits on Obesity in Latin America: Recommendations for the Region.- 28 Prevention of Malnutrition in Chile.- 29 Effects of Western Diet on Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases in Asia.- 30 Goals for Preventive Nutrition in Developing Countries.- VI Nutrition-Related Resources.
