Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Healthcare providers receive questions from patients on ways to improve health conditions and diet through proper nutrition. Continuing the tradition of its predecessor, this new edition provides a quick dictionary-style reference of hundreds of foods, food groups, phytochemicals, and nutrients they contain. It provides nutrient definitions and common uses, dosage, health benefits, and safe intakes. It summarizes research findings from over 1,000 scientific articles and uses the conclusions and recommendations of peer-reviewed sources. This edition contains new entries including almond and coconut milk, blackberry, chia, kefir, kimchee, pluots, saffron, yogurt, wheat grass and wine.
Features:
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Provides information on the beneficial bioactive properties of more than 275 foods, food groups, nutrients, and phytochemicals.
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Organized alphabetically by dietary compound to include: definition and use, scientific findings about physiological and health effects, dosage, and safe consumption information.
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Full update of 250 entries and citations, 25 new entries of foods and nutrients.
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New edition focuses on foods, food groups, and nutrients; all phytochemicals appear in table format.
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Includes an index on diseases and conditions for readers researching their specific medical issue.
Synopsis
Reprising The 2017 American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title award-winning A-Z Guide to Food As Medicine, this new edition explores the physiological effects of more than 250 foods, food groups, nutrients, and phytochemicals in entries that include:
- Definition and background information such as traditional medicinal use, culinary facts, and dietary intake and deficiency information
- Scientific findings on the physiological effects of foods, food groups, and food constituents
- Bioactive dose when known, such as nutrient Dietary Reference Intakes focusing on 19-to-50-year-old individuals
- Safety highlights, such as nutrient Tolerable Upper Intake Levels
A health professional's comprehensive nutrition handbook that includes all nutrients, nutrient functions, "good" and "excellent" sources of nutrients, nutrient assessment, and deficiency symptoms, as well as summaries of foods, food groups, and phytochemicals.
New to the Second Edition:
- Disease- and condition-focused Index that leads readers to foods used to manage specific conditions and diseases
- Focus on practical recommendations for health maintenance and disease prevention, including tables, insets, and updated scientific findings on more than a dozen new foods
- Accompanying teaching aids and lesson plans available online at http: //www.crcpress.com
Features:
- Dictionary-style summaries of the physiological effects of foods, food groups, nutrients, and phytochemicals alphabetically listed for quick access
- Approximately 60 B & W images of foods; informational tables and insets that define or illustrate concepts such as drug terminologies, classes of phytochemicals, and medicinal aspects of foods and of a plant-based diet
- Over 1,000 scientific references from peer-reviewed sources, including The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence Analysis Library, and position statements of major health organizations