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.

Inhaltsangabe1. Methods in nutrition researchDavid R. Jacobs and Norman J. Temple 2. Challenges in research in nutritional epidemiologyDavid R. Jacobs  3.  Eating disordersKelly Allison 4.  The developmental origins of chronic disease in adult lifeDavid J.P. Barker 5.  The nutrition transition is speeding up: a global perspectiveBarry M. Popkin 6.  Medical nutrition therapy for diabetes.  Prioritizing recommendations based on evidence.Marion J. Franz 7.  Diet and the prevention of type 2 diabetesNorman J. Temple and Nelia P. Steyn 8.  Diet in the prevention and treatment of obesity Claire R. Whittle, Michelle C. McKinley, and Jayne V. Woodside 9.  Diet, the control of blood lipids, and the prevention of heart diseaseMichael R. Flock and Penny M. Kris-Etherton 10. Fish, n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, and cardiovascular diseaseClaire McEvoy, Ian S. Young, and Jayne V. Woodside 11. Hypertension and nutritionAli Zirakzadeh  12. Diet, physical activity, and cancer preventionCindy D. Davis and John A. Milner 13. Health benefits of phytochemicals in whole foodsRui Hai Liu 14. Food synergy: a paradigm shift in nutrition scienceDavid R. Jacobs and Norman J. Temple 15. What are the health implications of alcohol consumption?Norman J. Temple16. Health claims and dietary recommendations for nonalcoholic beveragesTed Wilson 17. Trends in dietary recommendations:  nutrient intakes, dietary guidelines, food guides, food labels, and dietary supplementsGeraldine Cuskelly, Jayne V. Woodside, and Norman J. Temple 18. Population nutrition and health promotionNorman J. Temple and Marion Nestle 19. Optimizing nutrition for exercise and sportsRichard B. Kreider, Neil A. Schwarz, and Brian Leutholtz 20. The marketing of dietary supplements: profit before healthNorman J Temple 21. Functional food in the marketplace: new products, availability, and implications for the consumerJill K. Rippe  22. Food industry and political influences on American nutritionMarion Nestle and Ted Wilson 23. Nutrition policy by governments for the prevention of disease:  issues of cost-effectivenessNorman J. Temple 24. Use of biotechnology to improve food production and nutritional valueScott P. Segal, Travis J. Knight, and Donald C. Beitz 25. Core concepts in nutritional anthropologySera L. Young and Gretel H. Pelto 26. Postscript.  Strategic nutrition:  a vision for the twenty-first centuryNorman J. Temple, Ted Wilson, David R. Jacobs, Jr 12. Diet, physical activity, and cancer preventionCindy D. Davis and John A. Milner 13. Health benefits of phytochemicals in whole foodsRui Hai Liu 14. Food synergy: a paradigm shift in nutrition scienceDavid R. Jacobs and Norman J. Temple 15. What are the health implications of alcohol consumption?Norman J. Temple16. Health claims and dietary recommendations for nonalcoholic beveragesTed Wilson 17. Trends in dietary recommendations:  nutrient intakes, dietary guidelines, food guides, food labels, and dietary supplementsGeraldine Cuskelly, Jayne V. Woodside, and Norman J. Temple 18. Population nutrition and health promotionNorman J. Temple and Marion Nestle 19. Optimizing nutrition for exercise and sportsRichard B. Kreider, Neil A. Schwarz, and Brian Leutholtz 20. The marketing of dietary supplements: profit before healthNorman J Temple 21. Functional food in the mar