The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care

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