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Nutrition plays a role in the causes, treatment, and/or management of many chronic diseases, yet the physician's primary responsibility is to treat through medication. Translating research findings and clinical experience into practical treatment recommendations, the book focuses on alleviating chronic illnesses with nutritional support and interve
Through appropriate counseling and intervention, nutritionists play an important role in encouraging clients to make and maintain healthy dietary changes. Nutrition Counseling Skills for the Nutrition Care Process, Fourth Edition, provides the latest counseling theory and communication techniques for clinical and community settings within the context of the American Dietetic Association Nutrition Care Process. The Fourth Edition focuses on tailoring intervention strategies to a client's dietary needs through effective interviewing, assessment, and counseling. This revision addresses the unique needs nutrition counselors face regarding obesity, heart disease, diabetes, renal disease, hypertension, cancer, eating disorders, and pregnancy.
This book gives health care providers encompassing, detailed information on hypertension and also furnishes tools for promoting wellness. Hypertension Management: Clinical Pathways, Guidelines, and Patient Education contains an abundance of clinical guidelines which serve as a basis for clinicians pursuing disease management. In addition, this essential resource contains more than 100 easy-to-understand patient education sheets, which teach patients and their families how to take an active role in managing their high blood pressure.
A step-by-step guide for improving interviewing and counseling skills. it provides detailed strategies, sample monitoring, and adherence devices. You'll also get specific applications for stress management, coronary heart disease, diabetes, renal disease, cancer, anorexia, bulimia, maternal nutrition, and hypertension.
This resource thoroughly examines the role of nutrition, in the management and prevention of cardiovascular disease. Topics include: risk factor and nutrition assessment, lifestyle counseling strategies for behavior change, the role of functional foods, antioxidants and dietary supplements, preventing cardiovascular complications in diabetes, popular diets in the management of obesity, and an examination of special populations, including women, children and multicultural groups.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Widely regarded as the classic reference work for the nutrition, dietetic, and allied health professions since its introduction in 1943, Recommended Dietary Allowances has been the accepted source in nutrient allowances for healthy people. Responding to the expansion of scientific knowledge about the roles of nutrients in human health, the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine, in partnership with Health Canada, has updated what used to be known as Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) and renamed their new approach to these guidelines Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs). Since 1998, the Institute of Medicine has issued eight exhaustive volumes of DRIs that offer quantitative es...
Nutrition plays a role in the causes, treatment, and/or management of many chronic diseases, yet the physician's primary responsibility is to treat through medication. Translating research findings and clinical experience into practical treatment recommendations, the book focuses on alleviating chronic illnesses with nutritional support and intervention as part of the overall medical approach-- from eating disorders and alcoholism to cancer, HIV, and AIDS.