Nutritional Health

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.

Methods in nutrition research. - Challenges in research in nutritional epidemiology. - Eating disorders. - The developmental origins of chronic disease in adult life. - The nutrition transition is speeding up: a global perspective. - Medical nutrition therapy for diabetes. Prioritizing recommendations based on evidence. - Diet and the prevention of type 2 diabetes. - Diet in the prevention and treatment of obesity. - Diet, the control of blood lipids, and the prevention of heart disease. - Fish, n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, and cardiovascular disease. - Hypertension and nutrition. - Diet, physical activity, and cancer prevention. - Health benefits of phytochemicals in whole foods. - Food synergy: a paradigm shift in nutrition science. - What are the health implications of alcohol consumption? . - Health claims and dietary recommendations for nonalcoholic beverages. - Trends in dietary recommendations: nutrient intakes, dietary guidelines, food guides, food labels, and dietary supplements. - Population nutrition and health promotion. - Optimizing nutrition for exercise and sports. - The marketing of dietary supplements: profit before health. - Functional food in the marketplace: new products, availability, and implications for the consumer. - Food industry and political influences on American nutrition. - Nutrition policy by governments for the prevention of disease: issues of cost-effectiveness. - Use of biotechnology to improve food production and nutritional value. - Core concepts in nutritional anthropology. - Postscript. Strategic nutrition: a vision for the twenty-first century.