Title | Preventive Nutrition [electronic resource] : The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals / edited by Adrianne Bendich, Richard J. Deckelbaum |
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Imprint | Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 1997 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6242-6 |
Descript | XXI, 581 p. 13 illus. online resource |
1 Public Health Implications of Preventive Nutrition -- 2 Diet and Childhood Cancer: Preliminary Evidence -- 3 Prevention of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Cancers -- 4 Diet and Nutrition in the Etiology and Primary Prevention of Colon Cancer -- 5 Nutrition and Breast Cancer -- 6 Preventive Nutrition and Lung Cancer -- 7 Nonnutritive Components in Foods as Modifiers of the Cancer Process -- 8 Dietary Fat and Coronary Heart Disease -- 9 Antioxidant Vitamins and Cardiovascular Disease -- 10 Iron and Heart Disease: A Review of the Epidemiologic Data -- 11 Homocysteine, Folic Acid, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk -- 12 Omega-3 Fatty Acids from Fish: Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease -- 13 The Relationship Between Nutritional Factors and Age-Related Macular Degeneration -- 14 Antioxidant Status and Risk for Cataract -- 15 Osteoporosis: Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Micronutrients -- 16 Antioxidant Nutrients and Prevention of Oxidant-Mediated, Smoking-Related Diseases -- 17 Micronutrients and Immunity in Older People -- 18 Impact of Vitamin A on Immunity and Infection in Developing Countries -- 19 Folic Acid-Containing Multivitamins and Primary Prevention of Birth Defects -- 20 Nutritional Prevention of DNA Damage to Sperm and Consequent Risk Reduction in Birth Defects and Cancer in Offspring -- 21 Maternal Nutrition and Preterm Delivery -- 22 Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids for Optimal Neurodevelopment: Recommendations for Perinatal Nutrition -- 23 Potential Benefits of Preventive Nutrition Strategies: Lessons for the United States -- 24 Nutrient Addition to Foods: The Public Health Impact in Countries with Rapidly Westernizing Diets -- 25 Nutrition and Food Policy in Norway: Effects on Reduction of Coronary Heart Disease -- 26 Prevention of Pediatric Obesity: Examining the Issues and Forecasting Research Directions -- 27 Effect of Westernization of Nutritional Habits on Obesity in Latin America: Recommendations for the Region -- 28 Prevention of Malnutrition in Chile -- 29 Effects of Western Diet on Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases in Asia -- 30 Goals for Preventive Nutrition in Developing Countries -- VI Nutrition-Related Resources