Reprising The 2017 American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title award-winning A-Z Guide to Food As Medicine, this new edition explores the physiological effects of more than 250 foods, food groups, nutrients, and phytochemicals in entries that include:
New to the Second Edition:
- Definition and background information such as traditional medicinal use, culinary facts, and dietary intake and deficiency information
- Scientific findings on the physiological effects of foods, food groups, and food constituents
- Bioactive dose when known, such as nutrient Dietary Reference Intakes focusing on 19-to-50-year-old individuals
- Safety highlights, such as nutrient Tolerable Upper Intake Levels
New to the Second Edition:
- Disease- and condition-focused Index that leads readers to foods used to manage specific conditions and diseases
- Focus on practical recommendations for health maintenance and disease prevention, including tables, insets, and updated scientific findings on more than a dozen new foods
- Accompanying teaching aids and lesson plans available online at http://www.crcpress.com
- Dictionary-style summaries of the physiological effects of foods, food groups, nutrients, and phytochemicals alphabetically listed for quick access
- Approximately 60 B & W images of foods; informational tables and insets that define or illustrate concepts such as drug terminologies, classes of phytochemicals, and medicinal aspects of foods and of a plant-based diet
- Over 1,000 scientific references from peer-reviewed sources, including The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence Analysis Library, and position statements of major health organizations
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