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Nutritional Health

Strategies for Disease Prevention

  • Reviews the growing evidence of the importance of nutrition-related decisions at all stages of life to healthful living

  • Provides food policy strategies to address the current epidemic of chronic degenerative diseases

  • Written by world renowned experts in clinical nutrition and public health

Part of the book series: Nutrition and Health (NH)

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Understanding Nutrition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Methods in Nutrition Research

      • David R. Jacobs Jr., Norman J. Temple
      Pages 3-20
    3. Challenges in Research in Nutritional Epidemiology

      • David R. Jacobs Jr.
      Pages 21-31
    4. The Nutrition Transition and the Double Burden of Malnutrition

      • Malek Batal, Ana Deaconu, Lara Steinhouse
      Pages 33-44
  3. Nutritional Control and Prevention of Chronic Diseases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
    2. Nutritional Principles in the Treatment of Diabetes

      • Roeland J. W. Middelbeek, Samar Hafida, Anna Groysman
      Pages 69-83
    3. Obesity: A Disease of Overnutrition

      • George A. Bray, Catherine M. Champagne
      Pages 85-95
    4. Effects of Nutrients on the Control of Blood Lipids

      • Philip A. Sapp, Kristina S. Petersen, Penny M. Kris-Etherton
      Pages 97-107
    5. Coronary Heart Disease: Nutritional Interventions for Prevention and Therapy

      • Marina Ferrari, Jayne V. Woodside, Sarah F. Brennan, Norman J. Temple
      Pages 109-120
    6. Nutritional Influences on Blood Pressure

      • TanYa M. Gwathmey, Jamy D. Ard
      Pages 121-129
    7. Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Cancer Prevention

      • Rachel A. Murphy, Fidela Mushashi
      Pages 131-140
    8. Nutrition and Eating Disorders

      • Maija B. Bruzas, Kelly C. Allison
      Pages 141-155
  4. Nutritional Importance of the Parts of the Diet

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
    2. Alcohol Consumption and Health

      • Ted Wilson, Norman J. Temple
      Pages 159-166
    3. Functional Foods: Implications for Consumers and Clinicians

      • Karen M. Gibson, Eliza S. Dahly, Ted Wilson
      Pages 191-197
  5. Nutrition, Healthy Diets, and Public Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

About this book

This fourth edition brings together a diverse range of experts in nutrition-related areas to discuss recent thinking and discoveries in nutrition, especially in relation to topics that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional implementation. An overview of nutrition science in the third decade of the twenty-first century reveals that much water has flown under the bridge of the advancing river that is nutrition research and practice. With these large accumulations of developments in the field of nutrition, the need for a new edition of this book is obvious. Our vastly improved nutrition knowledge gives us the capability of preventing a sizable fraction of the chronic diseases that afflict the people of our world, but only if these discoveries can be translated into effective action at the population level. Nutritional Health endeavours to address the needs of those who would most benefit from up-to-date information on key areas in the field of nutrition.

The book starts with a discussion of the nature of nutritional research then moves into an overview of the most important aspects of the complex interactions between diet, its nutrient components, and their impacts on disease states, and on those health conditions that increase the risk of chronic diseases. Parts three and four discuss diet and include new chapters on the Mediterranean diet, the DASH diet, the flexitarian diet, and the low-carbohydrate diet. The final two parts of the book discuss emerging trends in nutrition science, such as gut microbiome and sustainable diet, and areas of controversy in nutrition, such as the influence of the food industry and dietary supplements.

Up to date and comprehensive, Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention, Fourth Edition offers physicians, dietitians, and nutritionists a practical, data-driven, integrated resource to help evaluate the critical role of nutrition.

Keywords

  • Beverages
  • Blood lipids
  • Cancer prevention
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Chronic disease
  • Dietary guidelines
  • Dietary intake
  • Dietary supplements
  • Eating disorders
  • Exercise and sports
  • Food industry
  • Global nutrition
  • Heart disease
  • Measuring dietary intake
  • Nutrient intakes
  • Nutrition therapy
  • Nutrition transition
  • Nutritional epidemiology
  • Phytochemicals
  • Type 2 diabetes

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Science, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Canada

    Norman J. Temple

  • Department of Biology, Winona State University, Winona, USA

    Ted Wilson

  • Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, MINNEAPOLIS, USA

    David R. Jacobs, Jr.

  • Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

    George A. Bray

About the editors

Norman J. Temple, PhD (Corresponding editor)
Centre for Science
Athabasca University



Ted Wilson, PhD
Department of Biology
Winona State University



David R. Jacobs, Jr., PhD
University of Minnesota
School of Public Health
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health



George A. Bray, MD
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana State University


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nutritional Health

  • Book Subtitle: Strategies for Disease Prevention

  • Editors: Norman J. Temple, Ted Wilson, David R. Jacobs, Jr., George A. Bray

  • Series Title: Nutrition and Health

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24663-0

  • Publisher: Humana Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24662-3Published: 11 May 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24665-4Due: 25 May 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-24663-0Published: 10 May 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2628-197X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2628-1961

  • Edition Number: 4

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 414

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Nutrition, Public Health, Primary Care Medicine, Food Science

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Buying options

eBook USD 149.00
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  • Available as EPUB and PDF
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  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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