Bendich / Deckelbaum Preventive Nutrition

The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals
2. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-59259-236-4
Verlag: Humana Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten

Reihe: Nutrition and Health

Nutrition has been recognized as a major determinant of health for centuries. Tradi tionally, nutritional sciences have primarily targeted the prevention of diseases resulting from clinical deficiencies of essential nutrients, such as scurvy and rickets. Contempo rary nutritional research has focused on the prevention of major diseases of Western civilization, particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as promoting mater nal and child health and healthy aging. Heart disease and cancer, which were rare in most developing countries several decades ago, are increasing dramatically in these countries, in parallel with economic development and dietary transitions, decreases in infectious diseases, and increasing sedentary lifestyle and obesity. Substantial evidence indicates major chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and some cancers are largely preventable by relatively simple diet and lifestyle modifications. Despite the great potential of nutrition in preventing diseases and improving health, nutrition is not routinely emphasized in the education and training of physicians and other health care professionals. This has resulted in inadequate nutritional knowledge and lack of skills in providing dietary counseling among many health care professionals. Further more, in the past decade, the public's access to nutritional information has been increas ing rapidly, particularly through the Internet. There are now hundreds of websites providing a wide range of nutritional information and selling numerous dietary products. Because of the explosion in nutritional information, the public's demand for nutritional advice has been increasing rapidly and will continue to rise.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bendich, Adrianne

Deckelbaum, Richard J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Diet and Childhood Cancer: Preliminary Evidence.- 2 Prevention of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Cancers.- 3 Diet and Nutrition in the Etiology and Primary Prevention of Colon Cancer.- 4 Preventive Nutrition and Lung Cancer.- 5 Nonnutritive Components in Foods as Modifiers of the Cancer Process.- 6 Dietary Fat and Coronary Heart Disease.- 7 Iron and Heart Disease: A Review of the Epidemiologic Data.- 8 Homocysteine, Folic Acid, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk.- 9 n-3 Fatty Acids from Fish and Plants: Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.- 10 The Relationship Between Nutritional Factors and Age-Related Macular Degeneration.- 11 Osteoporosis: Minerals, Vitamins, and Other Micronutrients.- 12 Antioxidant Nutrients and Prevention of Oxidant-Mediated Diseases.- 13 Micronutrients and Immunity in Older People.- 14 Impact of Vitamin A on Immunity and Infection in Developing Countries.- 15 Folic Acid-Containing Multivitamins and Primary Prevention of Birth Defects.- 16 DNA Damage to Sperm from Micronutrient Deficiency May Increase the Risk of Birth Defects and Cancer in Offspring.- 17 Maternal Nutrition and Preterm Delivery.- 18 Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids for Optimal Neurodevelopment: Recommendations for Perinatal Nutrition.- 19 Effects of Western Diet on Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases in Asia.- 20 Potential Benefits of Preventive Nutrition Strategies: Lessons for the United States.- 21 Goals for Preventive Nutrition in Developing Countries.- VI Nutrition-Related Resources.