Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1439887721 ISBN 13: 9781439887721

Publisher: CRC Press, 2012

Synopsis

Food and nutrients are the original medicine and the shoulders on which modern medicine stands. But in recent decades, food and medicine have taken divergent paths and the natural healing properties of food have been diminished in the wake of modern technical progress. With contributions from highly regarded experts who work on the front-lines of disease management, the bestselling first edition Food and Nutrients in Disease Management (CRC Press 2009) effectively brought food back into the clinical arena, helping physicians put food and nutrients back on the prescription pad.

Written by doctors for doctors, Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients, Second Edition reunites food and medicine. Buttressed with new evidence, leading physicians on the forefront of disease management apply the latest scientific advances to the clinical practice of medicine. Each chapter offers adjuncts to standard care, fewer side effects, improved risk reduction, or added quality of life.

Guided by Dr. Kohlstadt, this authoritative reference equips clinicians with the information they need to fully utilize nutritional medicine in their practice. Board-certified in General Preventive Medicine, Ingrid Kohlstadt, MD, MPH has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine (see About the Author).

Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients 2nd Edition:

• Contains more than 40 disease-specific chapters providing information on the relationships between food, nutrients, and management of disease
• Offers summaries that demonstrate clinical recommendations at the end of each chapter

This 2nd Edition includes additional new themes and topics:

• Periodontal disease, steatohepatitis, bariatric surgery, atopic dermatitis, kidney stones, toxic exposures such as molds, microbial infections, xenoestrogens, heavy metals, and inert nanoparticles
• Examines food-drug interactions and the effects of medications on the body's nutrient needs
• Food safety issues: precautions for patients with preexisting medical conditions, adequate labeling of food allergens such as gluten, potential adverse effects of artificial sweeteners, consequences of applying ionizing radiation to food, food-borne mycotoxins, critical food restrictions following bariatric surgery, precautions for preparing food in the home
• Consumer advocacy issues on navigating claims of medical foods and dietary supplements
• Physical forces on nutritional needs, such as ultraviolet light initiating vitamin D synthesis, non-ionizing radiation's effects on brain glucose metabolism and excess body fat's effects on inflammation and hydration
• Preventive medicine and how to preserve resiliency at the individual and public health levels

About this title

From the Author:

Top 10 reasons to buy this book:

1. Anchor your consulting practice in the latest science
2. Show your patients how nutrition is important for their health
3. Personalize your recommendations
4. Use it as a course textbook
5. Health care professionals in training can access 70 experts
6. Give it to your doctor:  Tell them you think nutrition is important
7. Use it as a second opinion, and third, fourth, and fifth 
8. Gift this to friends and change their health
9. Change public policy around nutrition with this authoritative work
10. Become better informed about potentially questionable or misleading claims from food and nutrition companies

About the Author:

Ingrid Kohlstadt MD, MPH is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Class of 1993, and is Faculty Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She earned her bachelor's degree in biochemistry at the University of Maryland and as a Rotary Club International Scholar at Universität Tübingen, Germany in 1989.

Board-certified in General Preventive Medicine and with a graduate degree in epidemiology, Dr. Kohlstadt became convinced that nutrition is powerful and underutilized in preventing disease. She therefore focused her career on nutrition through fellowships at Johns Hopkins and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as bariatric physician with the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center, the Indian Health Service, and the Florida Orthopedic Institute. She has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine.

Dr. Kohlstadt maintains that clinical advances emerge at the interface between research and regulation, where she has worked as an inaugural U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner's Fellow, a local health officer, a congressional intern and a consulting physician with the United States Department of Agriculture.

Having practiced medicine on every continent including as station doctor in Antarctica, she is convinced that nutrition is much broader than health. "It is an expression of our inter-connectedness with the earth and future generations, with each other and those who have gone before us." -Ingrid Kohlstadt MD, MPH

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1439887721
• ISBN 13: 9781439887721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 910
• Editor: Kohlstadt Ingrid