Integrating Nutrition into Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138294756 ISBN 13: 9781138294752

Verlag: CRC Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Integrative medicine is an approach to wellness that makes use of both conventional and alternative therapies to achieve optimal health and healing. Nutrition-based therapies are consistently among the highest used alternative therapies to treat a wide variety of illnesses. This book provides consumers and health care professionals with practical guidance on integrating nutrition therapies into disease prevention and management. It provides reliable and accurate information from experts in the nutrition field including dietitians, nutritionists, physicians, researchers, and academic professionals.

Integrative Nutrition Therapy includes up-to-date information on dietary supplements, popular diets, physical activity, and food allergies. The book covers disease prevention for cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity. Additional topics include liver/pancreatic conditions and musculoskeletal disorders as well as nutrigenomics, epigenetics, and metabolomics. The book provides evidence-based recommendations for which therapies might be appropriate for various conditions and discusses the possible adverse effects that may develop. It also includes guidelines and suggestions for creating individualized, integrative care plans.

Integrative Nutrition Therapy is organized in a systematic manner that presents the scientific data using an evidence-based, how-to approach. An overview of integrative medicine is written by Dr. Roberta Lee, a leading authority in the field. Award-winning nutrition experts provide practical knowledge for the integrative practitioner, covering topics such as:

• Nutrition screening and assessment
• Search for the optimum diet
• Functional foods and nutritional supplements
• Nutritional recommendations for women’s health
• Health benefits of physical activity
• Diet and mental health

Although unanswered questions still exist, this resource gives you a much-needed guide to the information currently available on nutrition and lifestyle-based therapies.

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Mary J. Marian, Gerard Mullin MD

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Integrative Nutrition Therapy provides both consumers and health care professionals with evidence-based recommendations for integrating complementary and alternative nutritional therapies for disease prevention and management.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138294756
• ISBN 13: 9781138294752
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 484
• Herausgeber: Marian Mary J., Mullin Gerard E. M.D.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland