Research Catalog

Title

Preventive nutrition : the comprehensive guide for health professionals / edited by Adrianne Bendich and Richard J. Deckelbaum ; foreword by Joann E. Manson, Frank B. Hu.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

• Bendich, Adrianne.
• Deckelbaum, Richard J.

Description

xvi, 503 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

"Preventive Nutrition: The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals, Second Edition, is the most comprehensive and up-to-date textbook in the field. It provides practicing health professionals with a critical synthesis of all the newest research, demonstrating that the risk of many of the major diseases affecting middle-aged adults can be prevented, or at least delayed, with simple nutritional approaches."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Nutrition and health

Uniform Title

Nutrition and health (Totowa, N.J.)

Subjects

• Medicine, Preventive
• Primary Prevention
• Diet therapy
• Diet
• Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
• Nutrition
• Nutritionally induced diseases > Prevention
• Nutritional Status

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Cancer Prevention. 1. Diet and Childhood Cancer: Preliminary Evidence / Greta R. Bunin and Joan M. Cary. 2. Prevention of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Cancers / Elizabeth T. H. Fontham. 3. Diet and Nutrition in the Etiology and Primary Prevention of Colon Cancer / Roberd M. Bostick. 4. Preventive Nutrition and Lung Cancer / George W. Comstock and Kathy J. Helzlsouer. 5. Nonnutritive Components in Foods as Modifiers of the Cancer Process / John A. Milner -- Pt. II. Cardiovascular Disease. 6. Dietary Fat and Coronary Heart Disease / K. C. Hayes. 7. Iron and Heart Disease: A Review of the Epidemiologic Data / Christopher T. Sempos, Richard F. Gillum and Anne C. Looker. 8. Homocysteine, Folic Acid, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk / Shirley A. A. Beresford and Carol J. Boushey. 9. n-3 Fatty Acids from Fish and Plants: Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease / William E. Connor and Sonja L. Connor --
• Pt. III. Prevention of Major Disabilities: Improvement in Health Outcomes. 10. The Relationship Between Nutritional Factors and Age-Related Macular Degeneration / Shirley Hung and Johanna Seddon. 11. Osteoporosis: Minerals, Vitamins, and Other Micronutrients / Robert P. Heaney. 12. Antioxidant Nutrients and Prevention of Oxidant-Mediated Diseases / Ronald Anderson. 13. Micronutrients and Immunity in Older People / John D. Bogden and Donald B. Louria. 14. Impact of Vitamin A on Immunity and Infection in Developing Countries / Richard D. Semba -- Pt. IV. Optimal Pregnancy/Infancy Outcomes. 15. Folic Acid-Containing Multivitamins and Primary Prevention of Birth Defects / Andrew E. Czeizel. 16. DNA Damage to Sperm from Micronutrient Deficiency May Increase the Risk of Birth Defects and Cancer in Offspring / Craig A. Mayr, Alan A. Woodall and Bruce N. Ames. 17. Maternal Nutrition and Preterm Delivery / Theresa O. Scholl.
• 18. Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids for Optimal Neurodevelopment: Recommendations for Perinatal Nutrition / Ricardo Uauy, Patricia Mena and Patricio Peirano -- Pt. V. Global Preventive Nutrition Strategies. 19. Effects of Western Diet on Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases in Asia / Kaichi Kida, Takuo Ito and Sei Won Yang / [et al.]. 20. Potential Benefits of Preventive Nutrition Strategies: Lessons for the United States / Walter C. Willett. 21. Goals for Preventive Nutrition in Developing Countries / Osman M. Galal and Gail G. Harrison -- Pt. VI. Nutrition-Related Resources -- Books Related to Preventive Nutrition -- Websites of Interest.

ISBN

0896039110 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00050030

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries