Prakash S. Shetty / Klim McPherson (Hgg.)

Diet, Nutrition & Chronic Disease

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

• Gebundenes Buch

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.

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)