Nutrients, Stress and Medical Disorders / Edition 1

by Shlomo Yehuda, David I. Mostofsky

Overview

A benchmark survey of current clinical findings on the complex interactions between diet, stress, and mental health, and their impact on disease states. The authors give special attention to the influence of stress on physical health, mental health, and cognitive function, including the critical effects of maternal nutritional status and stress levels on fetal physical and mental development, the role of lipids in the development and treatment of depression, the role of fish oil in the development of aggressive behaviors, and the consequences of obesity on stress and the development of eating disorders. Additional chapters examine the effects of stress on chronic disorders, women, and cardiac function, and the influence of inflammation on diet, neurological functions, disease incidence, and cognitive functions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617375668
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	11/09/2010
Series:	Nutrition and Health
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

History, Methodology, and Basic Science.- Stress Revisited.- Experimental Prools for the Study of Stress in Animals and Humans.- Neurobiological Foundations of Stress.- The Beneficial Effects of Fruit and Vegetable Supplementation on Neuronal Signaling and Behavior in Aging.- Effects of Stress and Nutrition on Blood-Brain Barrier Functions.- Nutrients and Stress.- Essential Fatty Acids and Stress.- Stress, Glucocorticoids, and the Brain.- Herbal Products, Stress, and the Mind.- Stress and Food Craving.- Stress, Alcohol Consumption, and the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis.- Influences on Diet and Stress Across Space and Time.- Health, Mental Health, and Cognitive Functions.- Nutrition and Stress and the Developing Fetus.- Lipids and Depression.- Nicotine, Sleep, and Depression.- Aggression, Fish Oil, and Noradrenergic Activity.- Stress in the Pathogenesis of Eating Disorders and Obesity.- Chronic Disorders and Inflammation.- Effect of Dietary Hypercholesteremia on Host Immune Response.- Treatment of Huntington’s Disease With Eicosapentaenoic Acid.- Major Stressors in Women’s Health.- Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Metabolic Syndrome X.- Dietary Management of Stress Using Amino Acid Supplements.- Conditioned Nutritional Requirements of the Failing Heart.- Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Neuro-Inflammation.- Pathophysiological Effects of Inflammatory Mediators and Stress on Distinct Memory Systems.- The Interaction Between Nutrition and Inflammatory Stress Throughout the Life Cycle.

Editorial Reviews

3 Stars from Doody

Reviewer: David H Abbott, PhD (University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health)
Description: This book provides a comprehensive examination of our current understanding of the role played by nutrition in ameliorating stress-mediated neural function, immuno-disorders and a variety of non-neural medical disorders. Each chapter starts with a helpful bullet-point summary and ends with a conclusion highlighting the chapter's main findings. Consistent use of terms throughout the book and complete definitions of any terms used are helpful to professionals not that familiar with the areas covered.
Purpose: The book examines clinical and laboratory findings linking nutritional status and dietary factors to stress regulation, neural function and a variety of health disorders, including auto-immune diseases. The editors' goals are to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive publication describing these multiple dietary and nutritional influences for health and basic science professionals and students interested in the latest understanding in this often neglected area of health.
Audience: This multiauthored book is written for health professionals, basic scientists, and graduate students looking for current understanding about how nutrition contributes to mental and physiological stress, as well as to a variety of neural and non-neural health disorders. The first few chapters presume such an educated and interested readership in their introduction of relevant background physiological and nutritional information, and of concepts that prove useful when tackling the more detailed and focused chapters that follow. The editors, Shlomo Yehuda and David Mostofsky, are international renowned for their research in nutritional science and neurobiology. They have brought together an impressive group of authors who provide authoritative chapters on dietary contributions to a variety of human health disorders.
Features: The book is organized into logical, progressive sections with useful bullet-point summaries at the start of each chapter. The first section provides a useful, current understanding of the physiology of stress that is logically followed by a section of chapters dealing with the relationship between nutrition and dietary factors and stress responses. The third and fourth sections have a repeating theme focusing on relationships between lipids and stress, neural disorders and immune function. The inclusion of a wide-ranging variety of clinical disorders ameliorated by dietary therapy is particularly informative. Such variety and clear organization of the chapters enables the reader to drill down to clinical areas of interest with relative ease. The inclusion of a chapter dealing with the contribution of nutrition to major clinical problems in women's health and pregnancy, including a comprehensive table on dietary supplements used to treat premenstrual syndrome, nicely addresses sex differences in susceptibility to adult disease.
Assessment: The well organized layout of the book is exceedingly useful for professionals who want either a quick introduction to the impact of nutrition on human disease or who need an up-to-date, concise overview of the current state of the field.

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From the reviews:

"S. Yehuda and D. Mostofsky have gathered in this volume … a total of 25 chapters divided in 4 parts, each chapter presenting a particular aspect of the relationships between 2 of the 3 terms contained in the title, i.e. nutrients and stress, nutrients and medical disorders, and stress and medical disorders. … provides a wealth of information on the various links between nutrition, stress and brain function. It should therefore be very useful for the scientific and medical community interested in nutritional neurosciences." (Sylvie Chalon, Psychoneuroendocrinology, June, 2006)

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