1st Edition
Primary Care Nutrition Writing the Nutrition Prescription
Chapter 1 Incorporating Nutrition into the Primary Care Practice
Chapter 2 Personalization of Nutrition Advice
Chapter 3 Nutrition and the Immune System
Chapter 4 Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Disorders
Chapter 5 Approach to the Overweight and Obese Patient: The Elephant in the Room
Chapter 6 Evolution of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Chapter 7 Managing Diabetes without Weight Gain
Chapter 8 Fatty Liver Disease
Chapter 9 Lipid Disorders and Management
Chapter 10 Nutrition and Coronary Artery Disease
Chapter 11 Hypertension and Obesity
Chapter 12 Nutrition, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Kidney Failure
Chapter 13 Nutrition and Heart Failure
Chapter 14 Pulmonary Function, Asthma, and Obesity
Chapter 15 Frailty, Nutrition, and the Elderly
Chapter 16 Nutrition in Neurodegenerative Disorders and Cognitive Impairment
Chapter 17 Gene–Nutrient Interaction
Chapter 18 Nutrition and the Risk of Common Forms of Cancer
Chapter 19 Nutrition and the Cancer Patient
Chapter 20 Writing the Nutrition Prescription
Biography
David Heber, Zhaoping Li
This informative manual is aimed at primary care professionals—specifically physicians—who understand the need to incorporate food and nutrition recommendations into patient care yet require guidance that is not readily available from reputable sources. Heber and Li, practicing and research physicians with UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, make the case that nutritional guidance is vitally relevant to the physician's realm of care. They discuss how to supplement drugs and surgery with the endorsement of personalized nutrition prescriptions that identify dietary, resistance exercise, and behavior change recommendations to prevent and treat common chronic diseases. Included in the discussion of nutrition-related conditions are topics such as the immune system, gastrointestinal disorders, eating disorders, obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease, lipid disorders, heart disease and heart failure, hypertension, renal disease, pulmonary function and asthma, elder care, neurodegenerative disorders and cognitive impairment, gene-nutrient interactions, and cancer. Each evidence-based chapter is succinct yet well-referenced.
--A. P. Boyar, CUNY Herbert H. Lehman College
