Main description:

Evidence-based nutritional interventions are now a critical component of preventive medicine, employed in a wide variety of medical scenarios. "Preventive Nutrition: A Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals, Fourth Edition" gives health professionals up-to-date, comprehensive reviews that evaluate the dietary practices and interventions that have been shown to reduce disease risk and improve health outcomes. This is the flagship volume for the book series, Nutrition and Health, which has become an essential tool for health professionals. As the state of global health and nutrition have changed much since the publication of the Third Edition, this major revised and expanded Fourth Edition includes newly authored chapters and features analysis of the results of the Women's Health Initiative, the largest intervention study ever undertaken and completed in postmenopausal women. Other new material includes chapters reviewing the evidence concerning econutrition, micronutrients and major cancers, and cognitive function and other mental health areas.
Also discussed are the importance of gastric acid secretions, the nutritional effects of current therapies, and the latest information on the biology of obesity and its relationship to Type 2 diabetes. One key new feature of this edition is a chapter on behavioral strategies to help assure compliance with dietary regimes, maximizing the health benefits of preventive nutrition. The authors have created the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of the nutritional strategies available for the prevention of disease and the promotion of health through nutrition. Patients are looking for credible information from their health care providers about a whole range of subjects covered here, including ss-carotene, lycopene, antioxidants, folate, and the myriad of bioactive phytochemicals found in garlic and other foods. With sections on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and pregnancy among many others, this volume will be of great value to practicing health professionals, including physicians, nutritionists, dentists, pharmacists, dieticians, health educators, policy makers, health economists, regulatory agencies and research investigators.
An entire section covers nutrition transitions around the world including Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia as well as goals for preventive nutrition in developing countries.

Contents:

Global Issues 1. Public Health Benefits of Preventive Nutrition: Global Perspective Walter C. Willett 2. Health economic benefits of preventive nutrition Adrianne Bendich & Richard J. Deckelbaum 3. Econutrition: Preventing Malnutrition with Agrodiversity Interventions Bram Wispelwey and Richard J. Deckelbaum 4. Nutrition in the Age of Polypharmacy Lindsey R. Lombardi, Eugene Kreys, Susan Gerry & Joseph Boulatta Cancer Prevention 5. Diet and Childhood Cancer: Preliminary Evidence Greta R. Bunin & Jaclyn F. Bosco 6. Prevention of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Cancers Elizabeth T.H. Fontham & L. Joseph Su 7. Factors in the Causation of Female Cancers and Prevention Donato F. Romagnolo & Ivana Vucenik 8. The role of nutrition and diet in prostate cancer Lorelei Mucci & Edward Giovannucci 9. Dietary Supplements and Cancer Risk: Epidemiologic Research and Recommendations Marian L. Neuhouser & Cheryl Rock Cardiovascular Disease Prevention 10. N-3 Fatty Acids from Fish and Plants: Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease William. E Connor & Sonja L. Connor 11. Cardiovascular effects of trans fatty acids Ronald P. Mensink 12 . Antioxidant and B vitamins and atherosclerosis Juliana Hwang-Levine, Wendy J. Mack & Howard N. Hodis 13. B vitamins in the prevention of cognitive decline and vascular dementia Kristen E. D'Anci & Irwin H. Rosenberg Diabetes and Obesity 14. The Women's Health Initiative: Lessons for Preventive Nutrition Cynthia A. Thomson, Shirley A. A.Beresford & Cheryl Ritenbaugh 15. Role of Nutrition in the Pathophysiology, Prevention, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes and the Spectrum of Cardiometabolic Disease Cristina Lara-Castro & W. Timothy Garvey 16. Nutrition, Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes in the Senior Years Barbara Stetson & Sri Prakash Mokshagundam 17. Adipokines, Nutrition and Obesity Melissa E. Gove and Giamila Fantuzzi 18. Diet, Obesity and Lipids: Cultural and Political Barriers to their Control in Developing Economies Henry Greenberg, Anne Marie Thow, Susan R. Raymond & Stephen R. Leeder Prevention of major disabilities; improvement in health outcomes 19. Diet, Osteoporosis, and Fracture Prevention: The Totality of the Evidence Robert P. Heaney 20. Gastric Acid Secretions, Treatments and Nutritional Consequences Ronit K. Zilberboim and Adrianne Bendich 21. Nutritional antioxidants, dietary carbohydrate and age-related maculopathy and cataract Chung-Jung Chiu & Allen Taylor 22. Micronutrients and immunity in older people John D. Bogden & Donald B. Louria 23. Micronutrients: immunological and infection effects on nutritional status and impact on health in developing countries Ian Darnton-Hill & Faruk Ahmed 24. Nutrition and HIV Kevin A. Sztam & Murugi Ndirangu Optimal Pregnancy/Infancy Outcomes 25. Folic Acid/Folic Acid-Containing Multivitamins and Primary Prevention of Birth Defects and Preterm Birth Andrew E. Czeizel 26. Maternal Nutrition and Preterm Delivery Theresa. O. Scholl 27. Linking Prenatal Nutrition to Adult Mental Health Kristin Harper, Ezra Susser, David St. Clair & Lin He Nutrition Trans