Bøger i Nutrition and Health serien

Updated chapters review specific evidence-based and future treatment modalities, present an objective evaluation of the treatment, and identify the positives and negatives that have been seen during clinical studies, as well as cumulative data derived from clinical practice.

The authors are encouraged to provide an overview of the field, discuss their own research, and relate the research findings to potential human health consequences.

The authors are encouraged to provide an overview of the field, discuss their own research, and relate the research findings to potential human health consequences.

Leading international researchers and clinicians comprehensively review in detail what is known about the ability of diet to enhance human immune function in health, disease, and under various condition of stress.

Handbook of Drug-Nutrient Interactions, Second Edition is an essential new work that provides a scientific look behind many drug-nutrient interactions, examines their relevance, offers recommendations, and suggests research questions to be explored.

Dietary Components and Immune Function focuses on immune modulation, immune mediated disease resistance, immune changes due to AIDS, immune modulated cancer therapy, and autoimmune diseases as modified by dietary supplement, bioactive foods and supplements.

Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes provides healthcare trainees and professionals with practical, comprehensive, and contemporary approaches to the pediatric patient at risk for obesity, T2DM, and related conditions.

One of the time-honored foundations of the practice of pediatric medicine is the understanding and application of the principles of fluid, electrolyte and acid-base disorders.

The industrial and agricultural revolutions have dramatically changed our lifestyles including where we get foods and what we eat. This title focuses on the scientific evidence that define such risks in diets with the consequences of increased illness, cancer and disease.

The Nutrition and Health series has been very fortunate to have each of the volumes recognized by rating services, such as Doody's, as valuable contributions for health professionals and individuals interested in the most up-to-date and balanced information from the experts in nutrition.

International experts comprehensively review our current understanding of how nutrition interacts with the genetic substrate as well as exogenous factors, including physical activity or the lack thereof, to result in insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.

Iron Deficiency and Overload: From Biology to Clinical Medicine is an important new text that provides a timely review of the latest science concerning iron metabolism as well as practical, data-driven options to manage at-risk populations with the best accepted therapeutic nutritional interventions.

A benchmark review on how specific nutrients or adverse nutritional states impact the components of the IGF (Insulin-like Growth Factor) system and affect human health and disease.

A survey of clinical findings on the interactions between diet, stress, and mental health, and their impact on disease states. This book gives attention to the influence of stress on physical health, mental health, and cognitive function. It examines the effects of stress on chronic disorders, women, and cardiac function.

This updated and expanded book was written with the underlying conviction that global health and nutrition problems can only be solved through a firm understanding of the different levels of causality and the interactions between the various determinants.

The data-driven resources provided here are a vital aid to healthcare professionals needing to know the causes, and types, of nutritional changes due to alcohol use. The book reviews specific areas of alcohol-related damage resulting from nutritional changes.

Magnesium in Human Health and Disease reviews the benefits of magnesium supplementation to reach recommended intakes as well as provides new research that suggests how reaching levels above the recommended intakes can promote health and treat various diseases.

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.

Chocolate in Health and Nutrition represents the first comprehensive compilation of the newest data on the actions of the flavonoids and microorganisms associated with the beneficial effects of chocolate.