The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care

1. Edition June 2007
464 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care
Edited by
Darwin Deen, MD, MS
Lisa Hark, PhD, RD
Clinicians and patients agree that primary care office visits
should include routine nutrition assessment and counseling. But how
do you fit it into an already crowded consultation? And what is the
most up-to-date advice?
With The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care, Drs. Deen
and Hark provide the necessary tools. This comprehensive overview
of nutrition answers your questions on:
* Nutrition as Preventive Medicine
* Nutrition through the Lifecycle
* Improving Health by Changing Diet and Lifestyle
Behaviors
* Vitamins, Minerals, Dietary Supplements, and the
Alternative
* Successful Changes to the Environment
This timely paperback contains everything the primary care
clinician needs to counsel patients on diet and lifestyle issues.
Keep it close at hand for the frequent consultation it is sure to
receive.
Dr. Darwin Deen is one of the nation's foremost
authorities on nutrition. Currently Professor of Clinical, Family
and Social Medicine and Director of Medical Student Education at
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, he has trained
a generation of physicians on the connection between nutrition and
health. He has played a leading role in revising medical school
curricula to incorporate nutrition training. An award-winning
teacher and noted author, he serves as Chair of the Task Force on
Medical Nutrition Education of the American College of Nutrition
and co-chairs the Group on Nutrition of the Society of Teachers of
Family Medicine. His years of experience as a family physician make
him perfectly suited to advise clinicians on counseling their
patients on diet and lifestyle.
Dr. Lisa Hark is a renowned family nutrition expert, with more
than 20 years of experience in nutrition counseling and promoting
the benefits of healthy eating in children and adults. As Director
of the Nutrition Education Program at the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, she developed a
model medical school curriculum and textbook, Medical Nutrition and
Disease, which has become one of the most widely used texts in
nutrition education. She was given the Excellence in Medical/Dental
Nutrition Education award from the American Society for Nutrition.
Dr. Hark was also the host of the TV show, "Honey,
We're Killing the Kids," which airs on TLC, and is a
widely sought after speaker who communicates nutrition concepts
effectively to health professionals, patients, and the media.
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Contributors viii
Preface xi
Section 1 Nutrition as preventive medicine
1 Nutrition and the primary care clinician 3
Darwin Deen and Katherine Margo
2 Changing the office culture to make it work 15
Arlo Kahn and Jane White
3 Methods of weight control 31
Cathy Nonas, Jennifer Williams, and Valentine J Burroughs
Section 2 Nutrition through the life-cycle
4 Growing up healthy 57
Susan Konek and Diane Barsky
5 Feeding the mother-to-be 85
James M Nicholson, Catherine Sullivan and Morghan B Holt
6 Staying healthy in later life 109
Connie Watkins Bales and Heidi K White
Section 3 Improving health by changing diet and lifestyle behaviors
7 Dyslipidemia, hypertension and metabolic syndrome 135
Frances Burke and Philippe Szapary
8 Diabetes, pre-diabetes and hypoglycemia 161
Marion J Franz and Richard Wender
9 Gastrointestinal disorders 179
Marianne Aloupis and Thomas Faust
10 Everything else 201
Marion Vetter and Katherine Chauncey
Section 4 Vitamins, minerals, supplements and alternative nutrition
11 Vitamins 223
Randee Silverman and Jeremy Brauer
12 Minerals 249
Randee Silverman and Jeremy Brauer
13 Dietary and nutritional supplements 275
Joel S Edman and Elizabeth Horvitz
14 Considering the alternatives 293
Benjamin Kligler, Joel S Edman and Mary Beth Augustine
Section 5 Successful changes to the environment
15 It's all about changing behaviors 311
Darwin Deen and Alice Fornari
16 Community counts 327
Kathryn M Kolasa
17 Cultural considerations 341
Kim M Gans and Charles B Eaton
Appendices 365
Review questions 385
Review answers 428
Index 435
nurses, and those going into these fields. It is meant as a general
overview for those who need to include a routine nutrition
assessment into their patients' visits. It would be a welcome
addition in health care collections." (American Reference
Books Annual, Vol. 39 (2008))
"Due for release in July, this guide arms health professionals
and consumers with nutritional information for preventing
obesity-related diseases. Essential for expanding knowledge and
research into preventative medicine." (Optimum Nutrition, Summer
2007)
"The authors note...the unique contributions that
registered dietitians can make in the...prevention and
management of chronic disease."
(Doodys Review)
Dr. Lisa Hark is a renowned family nutrition expert, with more than 20 years of experience in nutrition counseling and promoting the benefits of healthy eating in children and adults. As Director of the Nutrition Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, she developed a model medical school curriculum and textbook, Medical Nutrition and Disease, which has become one of the most widely used texts in nutrition education. She was given the Excellence in Medical/Dental Nutrition Education award from the American Society for Nutrition. Dr. Hark was also the host of the TV show, "Honey, We're Killing the Kids," which airs on TLC, and is a widely sought after speaker who communicates nutrition concepts effectively to health professionals, patients, and the media.