Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related Healthcare Professionals

Nutrition Guide for Physicians is a desktop reference guide on nutrition and its clinical implications for health and disease through the lifecycle. Presented in a new softcover format and user-friendly style, it serves as a valuable resource of practical information on nutrition for physicians in t...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Temple, Norman J. (Editor), Wilson, Ted (Editor), Bray, George A. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana Press, 2017.
Edition2nd ed. 2017.
SeriesNutrition and Health
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319499291
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-49929-1
Physical DescriptionXXXII, 392 p. 20 illus., 14 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of 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.