Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention (Nutrition and Health)

Now going into its third much-expanded edition, the highly praised __Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention__ has been brought fully up to date to include all the new thinking and discoveries that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional advancement. About half the new edition will be revised and updated from the second edition while the other half will consist of major revisions of previous chapters or new subjects. Like the two previous editions the book will consist of general reviews on various topics in nutrition, especially those of much current interest. The authors provide extensive, in-depth chapters covering 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 dieases. Up to date and comprehensive__, Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention, Third Edition__ offers physicians, dietitians, and nutritionists a practical, data-driven, integrated resource to help evaluate the critical role of nutrition. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Methods in Nutrition Research....Pages 1-27 Challenges in Research in Nutritional Epidemiology....Pages 29-42 Eating Disorders....Pages 43-58 The Developmental Origins of Chronic Disease in Later Life....Pages 59-83 The Nutrition Transition Is Speeding Up: A Global Perspective....Pages 85-99 Medical Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes: Prioritizing Recommendations Based on Evidence....Pages 101-125 Diet and the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes....Pages 127-142 Diet in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity....Pages 143-168 Diet, the Control of Blood Lipids, and the Prevention of Heart Disease....Pages 169-219 Fish, n -3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, and Cardiovascular Disease....Pages 221-246 Hypertension and Nutrition....Pages 247-270 Diet, Physical Activity, and Cancer Prevention....Pages 271-291 Health Benefits of Phytochemicals in Whole Foods....Pages 293-310 Food Synergy: A Paradigm Shift in Nutrition Science....Pages 311-322 What Are the Health Implications of Alcohol Consumption?....Pages 323-334 Health Claims and Dietary Recommendations for Nonalcoholic Beverages....Pages 335-347 Trends in Dietary Recommendations: Nutrient Intakes, Dietary Guidelines, Food Guides, Food Labels, and Dietary Supplements....Pages 349-371 Population Nutrition and Health Promotion....Pages 373-390 Optimizing Nutrition for Exercise and Sports....Pages 391-434 The Marketing of Dietary Supplements: Profit Before Health....Pages 435-449 Functional Food in the Marketplace: New Products, Availability, and Implications for the Consumer....Pages 451-475 Food Industry and Political Influences on American Nutrition....Pages 477-490 Nutrition Policy by Governments for the Prevention of Disease: Issues of Cost-effectiveness....Pages 491-503 Use of Biotechnology to Increase Food Production and Nutritional Value....Pages 505-522 Core Concepts in Nutritional Anthropology....Pages 523-537 Postscript: Strategic Nutrition—A Vision for the Twenty-First Century....Pages 539-542 Back Matter....Pages 543-559 In its third much-expanded edition, the highly praised Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention, Third Edition has been brought fully up to date to include all the new thinking and discoveries that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional advancement.¡ Drs. Temple, Wilson and Jacobs have organized this volume so that it provides an in-depth overview of the role of diet and dietary components in chronic disease prevention; the importance of public health actions, regulatory decisions and academic research in assuring the safety and efficacy of claims made on foods and dietary supplements.¡ About half the new edition has been revised and updated from the second edition while the other half consists of major revisions of previous chapters or new subjects. Like the two previous editions the book contains general reviews on various topics in nutrition, especially those of much current interest.¡ Up to date and comprehensive, Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention, Third Edition offers physicians, dietitians, and nutritionists a practical, data-driven, integrated resource to help evaluate the critical role of nutrition Covers 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 dieases. From publisher description