Optimizing women's health through nutrition
By: edited by Lilian U. Thompson, Wendy E. Ward
Contributors: Thompson, Lilian U; Ward, Wendy E
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9781420043006
Subjects: Women -- Nutrition; Women -- Diseases -- Nutritional aspects; Nutrition -- Sex differences; Sex factors in disease
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Need to optimize the health of women / Lilian U. Thompson and Wendy E. Ward; title: Sex-specific biology of the gastrointestinal tract / Marianne J. Legato; title: Adolescence / Nicole Larson ... [et al.]; title: Premenopause / Paula Skidmore and Aedin Cassidy; title: Pregnancy and lactation / Lisa A. Houghton and Deborah L. O'Connor; title: Menopause and midlife / Stacie E. Geller, Marci Goldstein Adams, and Laura Studee; title: Obesity and weight management / Peter Clifton; title: The metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus / Janet A. Vogt and Thomas M.S. Wolever; title: Cardiovascular disease / Alice H. Lichtenstein and Nirupa R. Matthan; title: Breast and ovarian cancer / Bette J. Caan and Cynthia A. Thomson; title: Osteoporosis and osteoarthritis / Wendy E. Ward; title: Rheumatoid arthritis / Lisa K. Stamp and Leslie G. Cleland; title: Irritable bowel syndrome / Gerald E. Mullin and Linda A. Lee; title: Eye health / Jennifer Evans; title: Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia / Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello, Sara Hutchison, and Hannes B. Staehelin; title: Depression and psychiatric disorders / Christina P.C. Borba and David C. Henderson; title: Eating disorders / Richard E. Kreipe and Sophie Bucher Della Torre; title: Oral health / Peter C. Fritz and Wendy E. Ward; title: Conclusion: what we know, and where do we go from here / Lilian U. Thompson and Wendy E. Ward