Preventive nutrition
Subtitle: the comprehensive guide for health professionals
By: edited by Adrianne Bendich and Richard J. Deckelbaum ; foreword by Alfred Sommer.
Contributors: Bendich, Adrianne.; Deckelbaum, Richard J.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Nutrition and health; Nutrition and health (Totowa, N.J.)
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 958
Subjects: Nutrition; Medicine, Preventive; Nutritionally induced diseases -- Prevention; Diet therapy; Nutrition; Diet; Nutrition Therapy; Nutritional Status; Primary Prevention
Description: "In this revision and expansion 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. This new edition combines fully updated versions of the best chapters of the first two editions with updated critical chapters from Primary and Secondary Preventive Nutrition, and adds 16 new chapters. Here, practicing health professionals will find all new reviews of lycopene, tomatoes and prostate cancer, soy and cancer prevention, the effects of dietary supplement use on prescription drugs, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and balanced, data-driven reviews of the effects of antioxidant supplements on health outcomes, and more. By synthesizing that latest data and integrating it into the broad body of existing information, this book provides in-depth guidance on nutrition and the prevention of cancer, cardiovascular disease, bone disease, obesity, and diabetes, and on achieving optimal pregnancies and birth outcomes. Of special interest are the new chapters as well as the extensively revised chapters on drug-nutrient interactions, health economics, nutraceuticals, Food and Drug Administration regulations for supplements, carotenoids, the elderly, children, diet and cancer risk, obesity as a chronic disease, diabetes, and immune function. Key point summaries and clinical recommendations are clearly provided at the end of each chapter to highlight critical lessons for the reader.".

"Preventive Nutrition: The comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals, Third Edition offers physicians, nutritionists, dentists, pharmacists, dieticians, health educators, policymakers, and research investigators a benchmark integration of the best available data on the role of nutrition in health. Unique in scope, size (over 900 pages), and detail, it demonstrates that many of the major disease affecting middle-aged adults can be delayed, if not prevented, with simple nutritional approaches."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preventive nutrition: a historic perspective and future economic outlook / Nancy D. Ernst and J. Michael McGinnis; title: Prevention of cancers of the esophagus and stomach / Elizabeth T.H. Fontham and L. Joseph Su; title: Nonnutritive components in foods as modifiers of the cancer process / Keith W. Singletary, Steven J.T. Jackson, and John A. Milner; title: Dietary supplements and cancer risk: epidemiologic research and recommendations / Marion L. Neuhouser ... [et al.]; title: Soy consumption and cancer prevention: a critical review / Jin-Rong Zhou and John W. Erdman, Jr; title: Tomato, lycopene, and prostate cancer / Jessica K. Campbell and John W. Erdman, Jr; title: Iron and heart disease: a review of the epidemiological data / Christopher T. Sempos, Richard F. Gillum, and Anne C. Looker; title: Homocysteine, folic acid, and cardiovascular disease risk / Shirley A.A. Beresford and Arno G. Motulsky; title: N-3 fatty acids from fish and plants: primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease / William E. Connor and Sonja L. Connor; title: Antioxidant vitamin supplementation and cardiovascular disease / Howard N. Hodis, Wendy J. Mack, and Alex Sevanian; title: Health effects of trans fatty acids / Ronald P. Mensink and Susanne H.F. Vermunt; title: Obesity and insulin resistance in childhood and adolescence / Erik Bergström and Olle Hernell; title: Prevention of pediatric obesity: examining the issues and forecasting research directions / Myles S. Faith ... [et al.]; title: Can childhood obesity be prevented?: preschool nutrition and obesity / Christine L. Williams; title: Obesity and chronic disease: impact of weight reduction / Henry I. Frier and H.L. Greene; title: Osteoarthritis: role of nutrition and dietary supplement interventions / Timothy E. McAlindon; title: Calcium requirements during treatment of osteoporosis in women / Richard Eastell; title: Osteoporosis: protein, minerals, vitamins, and other micronutrients / Robert P. Heaney; title: Antioxidant status and risk for cataract / Mark Siegal, Chung-Jung Chiu, and Allen Taylor; title: Antioxidant, nutrients, and prevention of oxidant-mediated diseases / Ronald Anderson; title: Nutritional supplements and upper respiratory tract illnesses in young children in the United States / Linda A. Linday; title: Micronutrients and immunity in older people / John D. Bogden and Donald B. Louria; title: Vitamin A and the prevention of morbidity, mortality, and blindness / Richard D. Semba; title: Folic acid-containing multivitamins and primary prevention of birth defects / Andrew E. Czeizel; title: Maternal nutrition and preterm delivery / Theresa O. Scholl; title: Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids for optimal neurodevelopment: recommendations for perinatal nutrition / Ricardo Uauy ... [et al.]