Nutritional and Clinical Management of Chronic Conditions and Disease is a comprehensive reference that helps clinicians successfully integrate nutritional management with clinical care.

Features:

• Interprets up-to-date research to provide practical guidance for health care professionals
• Emphasizes the nutritional components underlying specific diseases and conditions
• Contains chapters on childhood obesity and adult obesity, examining possible causes, health effects, and treatments

Contents

Chronic Conditions

• Childhood Obesity
• Medical Weight Control in the Adult Patient
• Adult Obesity, with Special Reference to Bariatric Surgery
• Nutritional Management of the Elderly
• Food Allergy
• Nutritional Considerations in the Management of Pregnacy and Lactation
• Facilitating Patient Behavior Change in Clinical Nutritional Management

Specific Disease Conditions

• Genetic Diseases and Errors of Metabolism
• Malnutrition and the Immune System
• Nutritional and Dietary Considerations in Management of Chronic Oral Diseases
• Dermatology and Nutrition
• Nutritional Management in the Patient and with and Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer
• Nutritional Management of Cachexia of Chronic Illness

Index

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