Nutrition and Health / Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related Healthcare Professionals

Part I: Nutrition Across the Lifespan.- Pregnancy: Preparation for the Next Generation.- Infants: Transition from Breast to Bottle to Solids.- Young Children: Preparing for the Future.- Nutrition in Adolescence.- Nutritional Challenges of Girls and Women.- Healthy Aging: Nutrition Concepts for Older Adults.- Eating Disorders: Disorders of Under and Overnutrition.- Obesity: Understanding and Achieving a Healthy Weight.- Nutrition Therapy Effectiveness for the Treatment of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: Prioritizing Recommendations Based on Evidence.- Lifestyle Interventions to Stem the Tide of Type 2 Diabetes.- Coronary Heart Disease: Nutritional Interventions for Prevention and Therapy.- Diet and Blood Pressure: The High and Low of it.- Role of Nutrition in Understanding Common Gastrointestinal Disorders.- Nutrition in Patients with Diseases of the Liver and Pancreas.- Medical Nutrition Therapy for Kidney Related Disorders.- Inherited Metabolic Disorders and Nutritional Genomics: Choosing the Wrong Parents.- Food Allergy and Intolerance: Diagnosis and Nutritional Management.- Hone Health: Sound Suggestions for Stronger Bones.- Diet, Physical Activity, and Cancer Prevention.- Vegetarian and Vegan Diets: Weighing the Claims.- Dietary Recommendations for Non-Alcoholic Beverages.- What is Best for the Patient: Abstinence or Moderate Alcohol Consumption?.- Dietary Fiber: All Fibers are not Alike.- Dietary Fate: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.- Vitamins: The Essentials.- Mineral Nutrients: from Macro-Level to Ultra Trace.- Issues of Food Safety and Quality: Are "Organic" Food Better?.- What is a Healthy Diet? From Nutritional Science to Food Guides.- Dietary Reference Intakes: Cutting through the Confusion.- Food Labels and Sources of Nutrients: Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff.- Achieving Dietary Change: the Role of the Physician.- Dietary Supplements: Navigating a Minefield.- A Plague of False and Misleading Information.- Drug Interactions with Food and Beverages.-

Norman J. Temple, PhD

(Corresponding editor)

Centre for Science

Athabasca University

Athabasca, Alberta T9S 3A3

Canada




Ted Wilson, PhD

Department of Biology

Winona State University

Winona, MN 54603




George A. Bray

Pennington Center

Baton Rouge, LA 70808

"In this second edition, the authors provide a concise but comprehensive overview of topics related to nutrition and health. ... The editors and authors succeed in providing an up-to-date, balanced review of a full range of nutrition-related topics that clinicians will encounter in current practice. Physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in primary care specialties will likely derive the most benefit from this book. Medical students also will find it a useful resource, particularly as they complete their clinical training." (Lisa M. Neff, Doody's Book Reviews, June, 2017)