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Book SynopsisThe Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care Edited by
Darwin Deen, MD, MS
Lisa Hark, PhD, RD
Clinicians and patients agree that primary care office visits should include routine nutrition assessment and counseling. But how do you fit it into an already crowded consultation? And what is the most up-to-date advice?
With The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care, Drs. Deen and Hark provide the necessary tools. This comprehensive overview of nutrition answers your questions on:
Nutrition as Preventive Medicine
Nutrition through the Lifecycle
Improving Health by Changing Diet and Lifestyle Behaviors
Vitamins, Minerals, Dietary Supplements, and the Alternative
Successful Changes to the Environment
This timely paperback contains everything the primary care clinician needs to counsel patients on diet and lifestyle issues. Keep it close at hand for the frequent consultation it is sure to receive.
Dr
Trade Review
“This work is intended for practicing primary physicians, nurses, and those going into these fields. It is meant as a general overview for those who need to include a routine nutrition assessment into their patients' visits. It would be a welcome addition in health care collections.” (American Reference Books Annual, Vol. 39 (2008))
"Due for release in July, this guide arms health professionals and consumers with nutritional information for preventing obesity-related diseases. Essential for expanding knowledge and research into preventative medicine." (Optimum Nutrition, Summer 2007)
“The authors note…the unique contributions that registered dietitians can make in the…prevention and management of chronic disease.”
(Doodys Review)
Table of ContentsEditors vii
Contributors viii
Preface xi
Section 1 Nutrition as preventive medicine
1 Nutrition and the primary care clinician 3
Darwin Deen and Katherine Margo
2 Changing the office culture to make it work 15
Arlo Kahn and Jane White
3 Methods of weight control 31
Cathy Nonas, Jennifer Williams, and Valentine J Burroughs
Section 2 Nutrition through the life-cycle
4 Growing up healthy 57
Susan Konek and Diane Barsky
5 Feeding the mother-to-be 85
James M Nicholson, Catherine Sullivan and Morghan B Holt
6 Staying healthy in later life 109
Connie Watkins Bales and Heidi K White
Section 3 Improving health by changing diet and lifestyle behaviors
7 Dyslipidemia, hypertension and metabolic syndrome 135
Frances Burke and Philippe Szapary
8 Diabetes, pre-diabetes and hypoglycemia 161
Marion J Franz and Richard Wender
9 Gastrointestinal disorders 179
Marianne Aloupis and Thomas Faust
10 Everything else 201
Marion Vetter and Katherine Chauncey
Section 4 Vitamins, minerals, supplements and alternative nutrition
11 Vitamins 223
Randee Silverman and Jeremy Brauer
12 Minerals 249
Randee Silverman and Jeremy Brauer
13 Dietary and nutritional supplements 275
Joel S Edman and Elizabeth Horvitz
14 Considering the alternatives 293
Benjamin Kligler, Joel S Edman and Mary Beth Augustine
Section 5 Successful changes to the environment
15 It’s all about changing behaviors 311
Darwin Deen and Alice Fornari
16 Community counts 327
Kathryn M Kolasa
17 Cultural considerations 341
Kim M Gans and Charles B Eaton
Appendices 365
Review questions 385
Review answers 428
Index 435
