Primary care nutrition : writing the nutrition prescription /
David Heber, Zhaoping Li.
- xvii, 370 pages ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Incorporating nutrition into primary care practice -- Personalization of nutrition advice -- Nutrition and immune system -- Nutrition and gastrointestinal disorders -- Approach to the overweight and obese patient -- Evolution of type 2 diabetes mellitus -- Managing diabetes without weight gain -- Fatty liver -- Lipid disorders and management -- Nutrition and coronary artery disease -- Hypertension and obesity -- Nutrition and renal failure -- Nutrition and heart failure -- Pulmonary function, asthma, and obesity -- Frailty nutrition and elderly -- Nutrition and neurodenerative disorders -- Gene-nutrient interactions -- Nutrition and risks of common forms of cancer -- Nutrition and the cancer patient -- Writing a personal nutrition prescription.