The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care

Editors vii

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