Main description:

This fourth edition brings together a diverse range of experts in nutrition-related areas to discuss recent thinking and discoveries in nutrition, especially in relation to topics that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional implementation. An overview of nutrition science in the third decade of the twenty-first century reveals that much water has flown under the bridge of the advancing river that is nutrition research and practice. With these large accumulations of developments in the field of nutrition, the need for a new edition of this book is obvious. Our vastly improved nutrition knowledge gives us the capability of preventing a sizable fraction of the chronic diseases that afflict the people of our world, but only if these discoveries can be translated into effective action at the population level. Nutritional Health endeavours to address the needs of those who would most benefit from up-to-date information on key areas in the field of nutrition.

The book starts with a discussion of the nature of nutritional research then moves into an overview of the most important aspects of the complex interactions between diet, its nutrient components, and their impacts on disease states, and on those health conditions that increase the risk of chronic diseases. Parts three and four discuss diet and include new chapters on the Mediterranean diet, the DASH diet, the flexitarian diet, and the low-carbohydrate diet. The final two parts of the book discuss emerging trends in nutrition science, such as gut microbiome and sustainable diet, and areas of controversy in nutrition, such as the influence of the food industry and dietary supplements.

Up to date and comprehensive, Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention, Fourth Edition offers physicians, dietitians, and nutritionists a practical, data-driven, integrated resource to help evaluate the critical role of nutrition.

Contents:

PART 1: UNDERSTANDING NUTRITIONChapter 01: Methods in nutrition research

Chapter 02: Challenges in research in nutritional epidemiology

Chapter 03: The nutrition transition and the double burden of malnutrition

PART 2: NUTRITIONAL CONTROL AND PREVENTON OF CHRONIC DISEASES Chapter 04: Pre-natal and childhood stressors promote chronic disease in later life

Chapter 05: Nutritional principles in the treatment of diabetes

Chapter 06: Obesity - a disease of overnutrition

Chapter 07: Effects of nutrients on the control of blood lipids

Chapter 08: Coronary heart disease: nutritional interventions for prevention and therapy Chapter 09: Nutritional influences on blood pressure

Chapter 10: Nutrition, physical activity, and cancer prevention

Chapter 11: Nutrition and eating disorders

PART 3: NUTRITIONAL IMPORTANCE OF THE PARTS OF THE DIET

Chapter 12: Alcohol consumption and health

Chapter 13: Non-alcoholic beverages: clinical recommendations, concerns, and opportunities

Chapter 14: Health benefits of dietary phytochemicals in whole foods

Chapter 15: Functional foods: implications for consumers and clinicians

PART 4: NUTRITION, HEALTHY DIETS, AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 16: The Mediterranean diet

Chapter 17: The DASH dietary pattern

Chapter 18: The vegetarian/flexitarian diet

Chapter 19: Low-carbohydrate nutrition and disease prevention

Chapter 20: Trends in dietary recommendations: nutrient intakes, dietary guidelines, and food guides

Chapter 21: Food labels: sorting the wheat from the chaff

Chapter 22: Health promotion and nutrition policy by governments

PART 5: EMERGING TRENDS

Chapter 23: Food synergy: a paradigm shift in nutrition science

Chapter 24: Genomics and gene-based personalized nutrition

Chapter 25: Nutrition and the gut microbiome: insights into new dietary strategies for health Chapter 26: Food insecurity, nutrition, and the COVID-19 pandemic

Chapter 27: Towards sustainable diets and food systems

PART 6: AREAS OF CONTROVERSY

Chapter 28: Technological approaches to improve food quality for human health

Chapter 29: Optimizing nutrition for exercise and sports

Chapter 30: Influence of the food industry: the food environment and nutrition policy

Chapter 31: Dietary supplements and health: one part science, nine parts hype

Chapter 32: A plague of false and misleading information

Chapter 33: Postscript. An overview of nutrition: much progress but challenges ahead