Preventive Nutrition (5^th Ed., 5th ed. 2015) The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals Nutrition and Health Series

This newly expanded and updated fifth edition will be the largest and most comprehensive of the five editions and new topics and chapter authors have been added.  The authors have created the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of the nutritional strategies available for the prevention of disease and the promotion of health through nutrition. Patients are looking for credible information from their health care providers about a whole range of subjects covered here, including ß-carotene, lycopene, antioxidants, folate, and the myriad of bioactive phytochemicals found in garlic and other foods. With sections on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and pregnancy among many others, this volume will be of great value to practicing health professionals, including physicians, nutritionists, dentists, pharmacists, dieticians, health educators, policy makers, health economists, regulatory agencies and research investigators. An entire section covers nutrition transitions around the world including Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia as well as goals for preventive nutrition in developing countries. 

Preventive Nutrition: The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals, 5th Ed. is an important resource for thousands of health professionals who have been utilizing the previous editions since 1997. 

Part I Global Issues.- Preventive Nutrition: From Public to Personal Recommendations and Approaches to Behavior Change.- Public Health Benefits of Preventive Nutrition:  Global Perspective.- Nutritional and Dietary Supplements – Code or Concern.- The Trans Pacific Partnership: Global nutrition at risk.- Nutrient density and health: How to develop global nutrient density metrics.- The Influence of Polypharmacy on Nutrition.- Diet-gene interactions: haptoglobin genotype and nutrient status.- Part II Cancer Prevention.- The Role of Diet and Nutrition in Lung Cancer.- Epigenetics of Endocrine Tumors in Women and Dietary Prevention.- The role of nutrition and diet in prostate cancer.- Dietary Supplements and Cancer Risk:  Epidemiologic Research and Recommendations.- Nonnutritive Components in Foods and Cancer Risk.- Part III Cardiovascular Disease Prevention.- Diet Quality and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention.-  N-3 and N-6 fatty acids Reduce Risk for Cardiovascular Disease.- Trans Fatty Acids: summary of the evidence relating consumption to cardiovascular outcomes and the efficacy of prevention policy to reduce levels in the food supply.- Nutrition Aspects of Stroke Prevention.- B Vitamins Influence Vascular Cognitive Impairment.- Part IV Diabetes and Obesity.- Childhood obesity: new paradigms on susceptibility, co-morbidities and interventions.- The W