Prakash S. Shetty / Klim McPherson (Hgg.)

Diet, Nutrition & Chronic Disease

Lessons from Contrasting Worlds
Herausgegeben von Shetty, Prakash S.; McPherson, Klim

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Produktbeschreibung

This book summarises the current state of the art of our understanding of the problem of non-communicable diseases and their primary prevention.

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Der Einfluß von Diäten, Ernährungsweise und Lebensstil auf chronische nichtübertragbare Krankheiten ist ein äußerst aktuelles Arbeitsgebiet - auch für Gesundheitspolitiker und Suchtforscher! Weltweite Strategien zur Vorbeugung und Krankheitsbekämpfung werden, geordnet nach Erkrankungstypen und geographischen Besonderheiten, diskutiert.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780471971337
• ISBN-10: 0471971332
• Artikelnr.: 22061443

Autorenporträt

Prakash S. Shetty and Klim McPherson are the authors of Diet, Nutrition & Chronic Disease: Lessons from Contrasting Worlds, published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

Aus dem Inhalt:
1. Overview of Diet-Related Non-Communicable Diseases: Global Overview of
Diet-Related Non-Communicable Diseases;
Status Reports on Diet-Related Non-Communicable Disease in Developing
Countries in Rapid Transition;
South and South East Asia;
China;
Caribbean and Latin America;
Arab States;
2. Prenatal and Life Cycle Influences on Later Life Diseases;
3. Migrants and Non-Communicable Disease;
4. Inequalities in Diet and Health 5. Dietary Fats and Non-Communicable
Diseases;
6. Diet and Large Bowel Cancer 7. Interactions Between Diet and Hormones:
Possible Role in Breast Cancer Aetiology 8. Alcohol and Chronic Disease:
Moderate Drinking is Best? 9. Public Health Impact of Globalisation of Food
Trade 10. Effective Intervention Strategies? 11. The Burgeoning Problem of
Global Obesity: Introduction;
Appetite, Food Intake and Human Obesity;
The Problem of Obesity and its Management;
Obesity and its Relation to Other Chronic Disease;
New Directions in Obesity Research;
12. Workshop Reports;
Diet in Early Life and Chronic Disease;
Dietary Chemoprevention of Cancer;
Vegetarianism and Chronic Disease;
Public Health Initiatives in Obesity;
Diet and Blood Pressure;
13. Lessons from Contrasting Worlds;
14. Where Do We Go From Here?.

Rezensionen

"This book represents a well organized and edited report of the Sixth Annual Public Health Forum..." (European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1999)