Apple-a-day prevention is supposed to keep the doctor away! So why is this book on nutrition written for doctors? Food and nutrients not only keep people healthy, they are clinical tools powerful enough to make sick people well. Optimal nutrition as understood by recent advances in molecular science has the potential to unfetter patients bound by chronic disease. Once disease is present, dietary counseling may be insufficient. Treatment may require diagnosing associated medical conditions, screening genetic factors, minimizing nutrient-drug interactions, ordering blood tests, referring patients to appropriate specialists, and modifying prescriptions. In other words, this book is not intended to add another responsibility to ever-shrinking office visits. It is about the practice of medicine. Each chapter was written by medical doctors for medical doctors.
ABOUT HELPING TODAY’S PATIENTS
This book is written by physicians on the front lines of disease management. It is written for doctors who want the latest treatment approaches that benefit today’s patients. This book does not represent guidelines, recommendations, or the current standard of medical care as defined by medical law. Neither does it contain patient-sensitive information.
PERTAINING TO BOTH FOOD AND NUTRIENTS
One who considers individual nutrients and biochemistry, but not food, is likely to miss the big picture. It matters how food tastes, how much time it takes to prepare, and how enjoyable it is to eat. Food is more than the sum of its nutrients. When it is eaten, with what other foods it is eaten, how it is prepared, and who is eating it all matter. On the other hand, if you consider only food, you are forfeiting important knowledge such as how nutrient needs vary with disease and how the nutrient content of food varies greatly in modern agriculture. Nutrients can overcome toxicant exposure, compensate for disease, overcome predisposing genetics and epigenetics, and repair medication-induced nutrient defi ciencies. In addition, this book reviews the medical literature on effectiveness of supplemental nutrients in treating disease. The quality of supplemental nutrients varies greatly and is also discussed.
Contents
SECTION I Disorders of the Ears, Eyes, Nose, and Throat
Chapter 1 Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Chapter 2 Rhinosinusitis
Chapter 3 Chemosensory Disorders
SECTION II Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases
Chapter 4 Dyslipidemia and Atherosclerosis
Chapter 5 Hypertension
Chapter 6 Congestive Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
Chapter 7 Cardiac Arrhythmias
Chapter 8 Asthma
Chapter 9 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
SECTION III Gastrointestinal Diseases
Chapter 10 Gastroesophageal Refl ux Disease
Chapter 11 Peptic Ulcer Disease and Helicobacter pylori
Chapter 12 Viral Hepatitis, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis, and Postcholecystectomy Syndrome
Chapter 13 Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Chapter 14 Infl ammatory Bowel Disease
Chapter 15 Food Reactivities
SECTION IV Endocrine and Dermatologic Disorders
Chapter 16 Hypothyroidism
Chapter 17 Hyperparathyroidisms
Chapter 18 Diabetes
Chapter 19 Obesity
Chapter 20 Acne
SECTION V Renal Diseases
Chapter 21 Renal Calculi
Chapter 22 Chronic Kidney Disease
SECTION VI Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders Chapter 23 Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Chapter 24 Seizures
Chapter 25 Attention Defi cit Hyperactivity Disorder
Chapter 26 Migraine Headaches
Chapter 27 Alzheimer’s Disease
Chapter 28 Parkinson’s Disease
Chapter 29 Depression
Chapter 30 Sleep Disturbance
SECTION VII Musculoskeletal and Soft Tissue Disorders
Chapter 31 Osteoporosis
Chapter 32 Metabolic Bone Disease
Chapter 33 Osteoarthritis
Chapter 34 Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chapter 35 Orthopedic Surgery
Chapter 36 Wound Healing
SECTION VIII Neoplasms
Chapter 37 Breast Cancer
Chapter 38 Cervical Cancer
Chapter 39 Colorectal Cancer
Chapter 40 Prostate Cancer
Chapter 41 Lung Cancer
SECTION IX Reproductive Health
Chapter 42 Pregnancy
Chapter 43 Male Infertility
Index
Book Details
- Hardcover: 740 pages
- Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (February 2, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1420067621
- ISBN-13: 978-1420067620
- Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.7 x 1.6 inches