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This volume provides an authoritative and balanced account of current knowledge and practice in the area of clinical nutrition.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. The field of clinical nutrition as a whole seeks to consider the nutrition of patients within the healthcare system, paying attention to the interactions between diet, nutrition, and disease. To that end, this book discusses nutrition as both a contributing and managing factor in relation to diseases such as obesity and diabetes. It also presents malnutrition as a contributing factor to such diseases and considers the efficacy of micronutrient supplementation. It ends by looking at some of the recent developments and future trends in the field of clinical nutrition.
Clinical Nutrition, Principles & Foundations The book was created using the available Published Clinical Evidence from the last 200 years. The information is given in a manner easily understood.
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Sarcopenia—the loss of muscle mass and strength that occurs with advancing age—is a major health challenge, particularly in North America, Europe, and Japan, which have large aging populations. This compendium volume is a valuable addition to the existing literature, providing state-of-the-art information on the most effective prevention and treatment options. Included are research articles on nutrition management and the prevention of sarcopenia; protein therapy for sarcopenia; effect of exercise on sarcopenia; and other therapeutic strategies, including antioxidants and steroids.
Written by eminent authorities in nutrition and dietetics, this unique text explores controversial and challenging issues that dietitians must deal with in clinical practice. Topics addressed include the economics of dietetic patient care. the dietetic professional's role on the healthcare team, the impact of emerging sciences on nutrition practice,and international nutritional guidelines. The book encourages students and practitioners to reevaluate the dietitian's role and examine viewpoints that vary from traditional approaches in nutrition practice. Issues to Ponder boxes provide interesting questions and topics for further exploration and discussion. More than 95 graphs and tables illustrate key concepts and synthesize important information.
This textbook is a practical guide to the application of the philosophy and principles of Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy (IFMNT) in the practice of medicine, and the key role nutrition plays in restoring and maintaining wellness. The textbook provides an overview of recent reviews and studies of physiological and biochemical contributions to IFMNT and address nutritional influences in human heath overall, including poor nutrition, genomics, environmental toxicant exposures, fractured human interactions, limited physical movement, stress, sleep deprivation, and other lifestyle factors. Ultimately, this textbook serves to help practitioners, healthcare systems, and policy makers better understand this different and novel approach to complex chronic disorders. It provides the reader with real world examples of applications of the underlying principles and practices of integrative/functional nutrition therapies and presents the most up-to-date intervention strategies and clinical tools to help the reader keep abreast of developments in this emerging specialty field. Many chapters include comprehensive coverage of the topic and clinical applications with supplementary learning features such as case studies, take-home messages, patient and practitioner handouts, algorithms, and suggested readings. Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy: Principles and Practices will serve as an invaluable guide for healthcare professionals in their clinical application of nutrition, lifestyle assessment, and intervention for each unique, individual patient.
This reference addresses basic principles and concepts that are central to the major clinical nutrition-related activities, such as nutritional assessment and monitoring, current theoretical base and knowledge of efficacious interventions, interactions between genetic and nutritional factors, and the use and interpretation of population-based or clinical epidemiological evidence.
Abstract: Clinical nutrition is intimately bound with the rest of medicine but until recently was neglected in medical training. Emphasis must be put on clinical nutrition techniques and education improvement to adequately deal with three major problems in the United States: 1) malnutrition; 2) ignorance of the American people of the composition of an adequate diet; 3) high saturated fat content in the diet. Dietary therapy must be integrated with total patient care and depends on good nutrition. Medical personnel should be aware of the nutritional status of patients and be able to nutritionally assess patients to ensure adequate nourishment for healing. Special diets, assessment techniques and diet therapy recommendations are included for obesity, gastrointestinal diseases, endocrinology and metabolism, cardiovascular diseases, treatment of surgical patients, and renal disorders. The effects of drug-nutrient interactions can include appetite altering, taste changes, and a modification in intestinal motility, absorption or metabolism of nutrients.
Abstract: A text designed to enhance medical students' and physicians' awareness of medical matters in clinical practice provides basic information concerning the biological aspects of nutrition for patient care. Topics include: nutritional assessment; nutrition counseling techniques; therapeutic nutrition modalities; nutritional needs of high risk groups (pregnancy, lactation, infancy to old age); nutrition controversies; the effects of drug-nutrient interactions; and the nutritional aspects of a variety of specific disease states (e.g., obesity, atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis, renal dysfunction, rickets, osteomalacia, gastrointestinal disorders, liver and bilary diseases, alcoholism). The nutritional aspects of minerals also are discussed. Reference information and data on food energy values and on specific nutrients and their requirements are appended. (wz).
