Nutritional Concerns of Women provides new research results that detail the prevalence of and different manifestations of diseases in women.

Nutritional Concerns of Women updates the knowledge base of nutrition and health interactions unique to women through the life cycle.

Nutritional Concerns of Women includes new chapters on obesity, diabetes, thyroid diseases, and musculoskeletal and rheumatic diseases.

Nutritional Concerns of Women also covers societal influences, nutrition in the adolescent female, menopause, and vegetarianism and examines the roles that gender and culture play on nutrition.

Equally useful to the dietitian, clinician, physician, researcher, student, and educated layman, this convenient and practical book provides a wealth of information.

Nutritional Concerns of Women facilitates nutrition recommendations for women and helps them integrate health issues and nutrition into guiding principles for everyday life.

Contents:

1. Women's Health, Nutrition and Research
2. Major Diet-Related Risk Factors for Women
3. Gender, Culture and Nutrition
4. Nutritional Needs of Female Adolescents
5. Premenstrual Syndrome: Nutritional Implications
6. Nutritional Guidelines During Pregnancy and Lactation
7. Hormonal Oral Contraception and Nutrition: Vitamins and Minerals
8. Menopause and Nutrition
9. Nutritional Considerations of Older Women
10. Eating Disorders: Metabolic Complications and Therapy
11. Nutritional Anemias
12. Diet and Osteoporosis
13. Nutritional Issues of Cardiovascular Disease in Women
14. Diabetes: A Woman's Disease?
15. Nutritional Issues in Arthritis and Rheumatic Disease
16. Thyroid Hormones in Health and Disease
17. Nutritional Factors in Women's Cancers: Breast, Cervical, Endometrial and Ovarian
18. Women and Weight: A Model-Based Perspective
19. Nutritional Concerns of Female Recreational Athletes
20. Nutrition and Vegetarianism
21. Nutrition Issues of Women in the U.S. Army

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