The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care

The aim of this book is to assist PAs and all primary care clinicians as they incorporate nutrition into routine patient care. The book will cover nutrition assessment and therapy for the most common medical conditions seen in the primary care setting. With the epidemic of obesity and its associated consequences, including heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and cancer, clinicians need to be able to assess and counsel patients about their diet and lifestyles on a daily basis. Despite this need, however, nutrition education has been lacking in medical schools and residency programs. The result– most PAs (all primary care practioners) who treat patients every day are inadequately trained in nutrition, and lack the information their patients want and need. Studies also document that patients want their practioners to advise them about nutrition therapy, vitamin and mineral use, information on popular weight loss diets, and "natural" weight loss supplements. The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care will provide the necessary tools to accomplish this training, allowing primary care practitioners to provide up–to–date, practical information to their patients.

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

Nota biograficzna:
Darwin Deen, MD, MS Professor of Clinical Family and Social Medicine, Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.
A board certified family physician, Dr Deen also holds a graduate degree in Human Nutrition and has been teaching nutrition for more than 25 years. He is the author of numerous papers in peer–reviewed journals and has served as a journal contributing editor and manuscript reviewer for family medicine and nutrition journals.
Lisa Hark, PhD, RD Director, Nutrition Education and Prevention Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
She is the editor of the popular nutrition textbook, Medical Nutrition & Disease, 3rd edition. She has broad experience in teaching nutrition to physicians and medical students and is a nationally known medical nutrition educator.

Okładka tylna:
The aim of this book is to assist PAs a nd all primary care clinicians as they incorporate nutrition into routine patient care. The book will cover nutrition assessment and therapy for the most common medical conditions seen in the primary care setting. With the epidemic of obesity and its associated consequences, including heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and cancer, clinicians need to be able to assess and counsel patients about their diet and lifestyles on a daily basis. Despite this need, however, nutrition education has been lacking in medical schools and residency programs. The result– most PAs (all primary care practioners) who treat patients every day are inadequately trained in nutrition, and lack the information their patients want and need. Studies also document that patients want their practioners to advise them about nutrition therapy, vitamin and mineral use, information on popular weight loss diets, and "natural" weight loss supplements. The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care will provide the necessary tools to accomplish this training, allowing primary care practitioners to provide up–to–date, practical information to their patients.