Table of Contents
Editors vii
Contributors viii
Preface xi
Section 1 Nutrition as preventive medicine
1 Nutrition and the primary care clinician 3Darwin Deen and Katherine Margo
2 Changing the office culture to make it work 15Arlo Kahn and Jane White
3 Methods of weight control 31Cathy Nonas, Jennifer Williams, and Valentine J Burroughs
Section 2 Nutrition through the life-cycle
4 Growing up healthy 57Susan Konek and Diane Barsky
5 Feeding the mother-to-be 85James M Nicholson, Catherine Sullivan and Morghan B Holt
6 Staying healthy in later life 109Connie Watkins Bales and Heidi K White
Section 3 Improving health by changing diet and lifestyle behaviors
7 Dyslipidemia, hypertension and metabolic syndrome 135Frances Burke and Philippe Szapary
8 Diabetes, pre-diabetes and hypoglycemia 161Marion J Franz and Richard Wender
9 Gastrointestinal disorders 179Marianne Aloupis and Thomas Faust
10 Everything else 201Marion Vetter and Katherine Chauncey
Section 4 Vitamins, minerals, supplements and alternative nutrition
11 Vitamins 223Randee Silverman and Jeremy Brauer
12 Minerals 249Randee Silverman and Jeremy Brauer
13 Dietary and nutritional supplements 275Joel S Edman and Elizabeth Horvitz
14 Considering the alternatives 293Benjamin Kligler, Joel S Edman and Mary Beth Augustine
Section 5 Successful changes to the environment
15 It’s all about changing behaviors 311Darwin Deen and Alice Fornari
16 Community counts 327Kathryn M Kolasa
17 Cultural considerations 341Kim M Gans and Charles B Eaton
Appendices 365
Review questions 385
Review answers 428
Index 435