Preventive Nutrition: The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals

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Evidence-based nutritional interventions are now a critical component of preventive medicine, employed in a wide variety of medical scenarios. Preventive Nutrition: A Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals, Fourth Edition gives health professionals up-to-date, comprehensive reviews that evaluate the dietary practices and interventions that have been shown to reduce disease risk and improve health outcomes. This is the flagship volume for the book series, Nutrition and Health, which has become an essential tool for health professionals. As the state of global health and nutrition have changed much since the publication of the Third Edition, this major revised and expanded Fourth Edition includes newly authored chapters and features analysis of the results of the Women’s Health Initiative, the largest intervention study ever undertaken and completed in postmenopausal women. Other new material includes chapters reviewing the evidence concerning econutrition, micronutrients and major cancers, and cognitive function and other mental health areas. Also discussed are the importance of gastric acid secretions, the nutritional effects of current therapies, and the latest information on the biology of obesity and its relationship to Type 2 diabetes. One key new feature of this edition is a chapter on behavioral strategies to help assure compliance with dietary regimes, maximizing the health benefits of preventive nutrition. 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. Patients are looking for credible information from their health care providers about a whole range of subjects covered here, including ß-carotene, lycopene, antioxidants, folate, and the myriad of bioactive phytochemicals found in garlic and other foods. With sections on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and pregnancy among many others, this volume will be of great value to practicing health professionals, including physicians, nutritionists, dentists, pharmacists, dieticians, health educators, policy makers, health economists, regulatory agencies and research investigators. An entire section covers nutrition transitions around the world including Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia as well as goals for preventive nutrition in developing countries. Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Public Health Benefits of Preventive Nutrition....Pages 3-22 Health Economics of Preventive Nutrition....Pages 23-49 Econutrition: Preventing Malnutrition with Agrodiversity Interventions....Pages 51-78 Nutrition in the Age of Polypharmacy....Pages 79-123 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Diet and Childhood Cancer: Preliminary Evidence....Pages 127-143 Prevention of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Cancers....Pages 145-174 Factors in the Causation of Female Cancers and Prevention....Pages 175-194 The Role of Nutrition and Diet in Prostate Cancer....Pages 195-218 Dietary Supplements and Cancer Risk: Epidemiologic Research and Recommendations....Pages 219-246 Front Matter....Pages 247-247 N -3 Fatty Acids from Fish and Plants: Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease....Pages 249-271 Cardiovascular Effects of Trans Fatty Acids....Pages 273-284 Antioxidant and B-vitamins and Atherosclerosis....Pages 285-323 B Vitamins in the Prevention of Cognitive Decline and Vascular Dementia....Pages 325-334 Front Matter....Pages 335-335 The Women's Health Initiative: Lessons for Preventive Nutrition....Pages 337-370 Role of Nutrition in the Pathophysiology, Prevention, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes and the Spectrum of Cardiometabolic Disease....Pages 371-387 Nutrition, Metabolic Syndrome, and Diabetes in the Senior Years....Pages 389-417 Adipokines, Nutrition, and Obesity....Pages 419-432 Diet, Obesity, and Lipids: Cultural and Political Barriers to Their Control in Developing Economies....Pages 433-439 Front Matter....Pages 441-441 Diet, Osteoporosis, and Fracture Prevention: The Totality of the Evidence....Pages 443-469 Gastric Acid Secretions, Treatments, and Nutritional Consequences....Pages 471-499 Front Matter....Pages 441-441 Nutritional Antioxidants, Dietary Carbohydrate, and Age-Related Maculopathy and Cataract....Pages 501-543 Micronutrients and Immunity in Older People....Pages 545-565 Micronutrients: Immunological and Infection Effects on Nutritional Status and Impact on Health in Developing Countries....Pages 567-609 HIV and Nutrition....Pages 611-640 Front Matter....Pages 641-641 Folic Acid/Folic Acid-Containing Multivitamins and Primary Prevention of Birth Defects and Preterm Birth....Pages 643-672 Maternal Nutrition and Preterm Delivery....Pages 673-703 Linking Prenatal Nutrition to Adult Mental Health....Pages 705-720 Front Matter....Pages 721-721 Nutritional Habits and Obesity in Latin America: An Analysis of the Region....Pages 723-742 Effects of Western Diet on Risk Factors of Chronic Disease in Asia....Pages 743-756 Goals for Preventive Nutrition in Developing Countries....Pages 757-767 Preventive Nutrition and the Food Industry: Perspectives on History, Present, and Future Directions....Pages 769-792 The Role of Preventive Nutrition in Clinical Practice....Pages 793-821 Back Matter....Pages 823-864