Main description:

This second edition volume is a desktop reference guide on nutrition and its clinical implications for health and disease. Presented in a new softcover format and user-friendly style, it serves as a valuable resource of practical information on nutrition for physicians and other healthcare professionals in their daily practice. The book covers all important aspects of nutrition including basic nutritional principles, nutrition through the lifecycle and optimal nutrition patterns through all stages of development, and diet and its role in prevention, cause, and treatment of disease.

Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related Healthcare Professionals is thoroughly updated from its predecessor, Nutrition Guide for Physicians and provides a wide perspective of the impact that nutrition has upon medical practice and will be an indispensable resource for primary care physicians and other medical professionals.

Contents:

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.- Nutritional Status: An Overview of Methods for Assessment.- Nutritional Considerations following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy.