Overview
- Defines the causes and types of nutritional changes due to alcohol use
- Reviews specific areas involving alcohol-related damages due to nutritional changes
- Desk reference for primary care physicians, dietitians, alcohol therapists and researchers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Nutrition and Health (NH)
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Chronic alcohol use is associated with heart, liver, brain, and other organ pathology.  Alcohol is a drug of abuse and a caloric food and it causes poor intake and absorption of nutrients, thus playing a major role in many aspects of clinical consequences. Alcohol use lowers consumption of fruit and vegetables, lowers tissue nutrients, and, in some cases, requires nutritional therapy by clinicians.  Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences will help the clinician define the causes and types of nutritional changes due to alcohol use and also explain how nutrition can be used to ameliorate its consequences. Chapters present the application of current nutritional knowledge by physicians and dietitians. Specific areas involving alcohol-related damage due to nutritional changes are reviewed, including heart disease, obesity, digestive tract cancers, lactation, brain function, and liver disease. In addition, alcohol’s effects on absorption of minerals and nutrients, a key role in causing damage are treated. The importance of diet in modifying alcohol and its metabolite damage is also explained.
            Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences is essential reading for alcohol therapists and researchers as well as primary care physicians and dietitians and is an easy reference to help the clinician, student, and dietitian comprehend the complex changes caused by direct and indirect effects of ethanol at the cellular level via its nutritional modification.
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Table of contents (43 chapters)
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Overview and General Nutrition during alcohol use
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Nutrients and Foods as modified by alcohol
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Nutrient Effects on Alcohol Metabolism
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences
Editors: Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, Sherma Zibadi
Series Title: Nutrition and Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-047-2
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-046-5Published: 24 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6283-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-62703-047-2Published: 24 August 2012
Series ISSN: 2628-197X
Series E-ISSN: 2628-1961
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 578
Topics: Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition, Primary Care Medicine