Nutritional Health
Strategies for Disease Prevention
1st Edition
Published on 23. February 2001
XVI, 336 pages
978-1-59259-226-5 (ISBN)
Description
An authoritative and comprehensive collection of cutting-edge reviews by leading authorities detailing the scientific evidence for the health effects of vitamins, minerals, functional foods, and other classes of foods. The authors provide readers with updated recommendations on a wide range of significant nutritional questions, including the cardiovascular effects of homocysteine and dietary fats; the importance of antioxidants and soy isoflavones with respect to heart disease and cancer; and the use of dietary modifications in the prevention and/or treatment of blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Richly insightful and up-to-date, Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention offers sound advice on optimizing our nutritional habits, as well as a valuable guide to the growing body of literature that shows how nutritional interventions have become essential to reducing the risk of chronic disease.
Reviews / Votes
"Given the amount and complexity of nutrition research, this book provides a valuable contribution to providers requiring comprehensive yet accessible information. The author's objective to provide strategies for prevention are well met... The book is written for health providers at all levels, from student to practitioner, from nutrition and nursing to medicine. The editors and contributors include leading authorities on various topics... Chapters are of appropriate length, with concise but balanced information provided in a reader-friendly, subtitled format. Summaries at the end of each chapter provide quick reference for topics such as hypertension and cancer risk. Unique features include timely discussions of nutrition information on the Internet and advertising effects on public health... It is a good reference for those not interested in wading through large references to find the most pertinent information." -Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal"This volume in the Nutrition and Health series focuses on the potential role of diet in achieving maximum health throughout the life span...It is timely, authoritative, and clearly written, with appropriate referencing and index. It will be particularly useful for university-level courses on nutrition and health." - Food and Nutrition Bulletin
"...this book is a useful addition to the biomedical and health literature." -Pathways: The Novartis Journal
"Nutrional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention fills a unique niche among books available for health professionals and is therefore recommended as a valuable reference work for physicians, nurses, dieticians, and health professional students. It can be best used as an introduction to the many topics covered in the chapters, to direct readers to other primary sources of information, and to provoke discussion concerning emerging, complex, and controversial issues in nutrition and disease prevention and management."-American Journal of Medicine
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Totowa
United States
Publishing group
Humana Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XVI, 336 p. 5 illus.
File size
38,15 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-59259-226-5 (9781592592265)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-59259-226-5
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Norman J. Temple | Ted Wilson | David R. Jacobs, Jr.
Nutritional Health
Strategies for Disease Prevention
E-Book
07/2012
3rd Edition
Humana
€181.89
Available for download
Content
1 Nutrition Advocacy for Better Health.- 2 Population Nutrition, Health Promotion, and Government Policy.- 3 Calcium Intake and the Prevention of Chronic Disease: From Osteoporosis to Premenstrual Syndrome.- 4 Sodium and Other Dietary Factors in Hypertension.- 5 Proper Nutritional Habits for Reducing the Risk of Cancer.- 6 Health Benefits of Soy Isoflavones.- 7 Antioxidants in Health and Disease.- 8 Dietary Antioxidants and Protection from Coronary Heart Disease.- 9 Dietary Fat, Blood Lipids, and Coronary Heart Disease Risk.- 10 Current Theories Regarding the Influence of Diet and the Control of Obesity.- 11 Homocysteine, Diet, and Cardiovascular Disease.- 12 Medical Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes: What Are the Unanswered Questions?.- 13 Health Aspects of Fish and n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids from Plant and Marine Origin.- 14 Optimizing Nutrition for Exercise and Sport.- 15 Health Promoting Herbs as Useful Adjuncts to Prevent Chronic Diseases.- 16 Fetal Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease in Adult Life.- 17 Impact of Nutritional Epidemiology.- 18 Use of Biotechnology to Improve Food Production and Quality.- 19 Nutrition on the Internet.- 20 Nutrition in the 21st Century.
