| Description |
1 online resource (510 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
CRC series in modern nutrition |
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Modern nutrition (Boca Raton, Fla.)
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| Contents |
1. Women's health, nutrition and research / Nancy B. Cummings -- 2. Major diet-related risk factors for women / Susan H. Mitmesser and Timothy P. Carr -- 3. Gender, culture and nutrition / Cristanna M. Cook and Richard A. Cook --4. Nutritional needs of female adolescents / Jamie S. Stang and Rachel Hayes-Bohn -- 5. Premenstrual syndrome: nutritional implications / Jaime S. Ruud and Bonnie Taub-Dix -- 6. Nutritional guidelines during pregnancy and lactation / Yolanda Cartwright and Mary Story -- 7. Hormonal oral contraception and nutrition: vitamins and minerals / Priscille G. Massé and Carole C. Tranchant -- 8. Menopause and nutrition / Jennifer C. Lovejoy and Michael Hamilton -- 9. Nutritional considerations of older women / Helen Smiciklas-Wright [and others] -- 10. Eating disorders: metabolic complications and therapy / Kelly K. Hill [and others] -- 11. Nutritional anemias / Lisa M. Bodnar, Kelley S. Scanlon, and Mary E. Cogswell -- 12. Diet and osteoporosis / John J.B. Anderson -- 13. Nutritional issues of cardiovascular disease in women / Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, Anastasia Z. Kalea and Ira Wolinsky -- 14. Diabetes: a woman's disease? / Carolyn D. Berdanier -- 15. Nutritional issues in arthritis and rheumatic disease / Tammy O. Utset -- 16. Thyroid hormones in health and disease / Carolyn D. Berdanier -- 17. Nutritional factors in women's cancers: breast, cervical, endometrial and ovarian / Barbara C. Pence -- 18. Women and weight: a model-based perspective / Ellen S. Parham and Adrienne A. White -- 19. Nutritional concerns of female recreational athletes / Catherine G. Ratzin Jackson -- 20. Nutrition and vegetarianism / Sujatha Rajaram, Patricia a. Dyett and John Sabaté --21. Nutrition issues of women in the U.S. Army / Nancy King, Carol J. Baker-Fulco and E. Wayne Askew |
| Summary |
Women's health and nutrition concerns have moved to the forefront of research with the mandate by the National Institutes of Health to include women in formerly male-only studies assessing responses to diet and disease. This second edition of a popular and highly praised resource provides new research results that detail the prevalence of and different manifestations of diseases in women. With more contributions by leading authorities, it includes new chapters on obesity, diabetes, thyroid diseases, and musculoskeletal and rheumatic nutrition in the adolescent female, menopause and vegetariani |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nutritionally induced diseases -- Sex factors
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Women -- Nutrition.
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Women -- Diseases.
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Sex factors in disease.
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Women's Health
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Nutrition Disorders -- prevention & control
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Sex Factors
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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Sex factors in disease
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Women -- Diseases
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Women -- Health and hygiene
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Women -- Nutrition
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Klimis-Zacas, Dorothy.
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Wolinsky, Ira.
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| ISBN |
1420040383 |
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9781420040388 |
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0203507908 |
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9780203507902 |
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9781439833377 |
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1439833370 |
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9781135511678 |
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1135511675 |
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9781135511715 |
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1135511713 |
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9781135511722 |
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1135511721 |
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