Main description:

Nutrition has long been the missing ingredient in the treatment of the various musculoskeletal conditions seen daily by the health professionals. The often-stated reason for giving nutrition short shrift is the lack of evidence. Responding to this need, Scientific Evidence for Musculoskeletal, Bariatric, and Sports Nutrition provides clinicians with an evidence-based integration of nutrition into medical treatment. Gathering biochemical information and presenting it in clinical terms, the book explores the link between fat, muscle, and bone tissue, and how nutrition can be used to enhance their metabolism and performance. Written by doctors for doctors, the book offers a biological rationale supported by animal studies, clinical trials, ongoing research initiatives, and epidemiological findings. It provides discussions of body composition, nutrigenomics, and fetal origins of adult-onset musculoskeletal conditions. The contributors identify macronutrients, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and even water for optimal muscle, bone and fat metabolism. They also delineate how new technology can be incorporated into practice and highlight foods and nutraceuticals with effects similar to medications.

The international, multidisciplinary panel of contributors, many of them practicing clinicians, attests to the multifaceted nature of treating musculoskeletal conditions. The book includes pearls from clinicians renowned for their innovative work in fibromyalgia, sports medicine, sarcopenia, osteoporosis, obesity, and environmental medicine. Additional clinical chapters summarize the evidence for nutritional interventions for muscle hypertrophy from steroid use, anorexia, metabolic syndrome, strained muscles, osteoarthritis, gout, fractures, perioperative muscle loss, bariatric surgery, and high body stores of xenobiotics. Approximately 100 charts, tables, and protocols allow easy access and cross-referencing. The text presents approaches to clinical management that foster more predictive, cost-and outcome-effective, integrative, and comprehensive clinical care.

An article by Ingrid Kohlstadt on education and nutrition appeared in TIME Magazine online on November 12, 2014.

Contents:

(Consider omitting the portion of the titles which follows the colon, if this is helpful for formatting) Frontiers and Technologic Advances
Body Composition: Quantifying the Musculoskeletal System, I. Janssen
Nutrigenomics: Strategic Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders of Aging, J. Bland
Early Environments: Fetal and Infant Nutrition, S.W. Chan, and G. Pereira Key Nutrients
Fat, M.G. Enig, and I. Kohlstadt
Carbohydrate, J.D. Bagnulo
Protein, D.I. Minkoff
Antioxidants, G.K. Harris and D.J. Baer
Water: A Driving Force in the Musculoskeletal System, F. Batmanghelidj and I. Kohlstadt
Magnesium, A. Buford-Mason
Vitamin D, M.F. Holick
Chromium: Roles in the Regulation of Lean Body Mass and Body Weight, R.A. Anderson Fat Tissue
Energy Balance, W.C. Miller
Neuroendocrine Regulation of Appetite, C. Contoreggi and I. Kohlstadt
Estrogen's Role in the Regulation of Appetite and Body Fat, P.J. Geiselman and S.R. Smith
Childhood Obesity, A.D. Salbe, M.B. Schwartz, and I. Kohlstadt
Bariatric Surgery: More Effective with Nutrition, I. Kohlstadt
Malnutrition: Applying the Physiology of Food Restriction to Clinical Practice, A.S. Dweck Muscle Tissue
Muscle Atrophy, K.R. Short
Muscle Strain, I. Kohlstadt, E. Schweitzer, K. Mutter, and L.B. Godwin
Muscle Hypertrophy, S.E.Alway Soft Tissue
Osteoarthritis, L. Mischley and D. Musnick
Fibromyalgia, J. Teitelbaum
Gout, T. Helman
Oral Markers of Tissue Health, H. Luechauer and K. Poleson Bone
Bone Nutrition, S.E. Brown
Osteoporosis, J.J. Lamb
Fractures, C. Nadelson and K.B. Gebke Physical Stress
Preparing for Orthopedic Surgery, V. Joseph and I. Kohlstadt
Xenobiotics: Managing Toxic Metals, Biocides, Hormone Mimics, Solvents and Chemical Disruptors, R. Jaffe
Ergogenics: Maintaining Performance during Physical Stress, L.R. Bucci
Terrestrial Extremes: Nutritional Considerations for High Altitude and Cold and Hot Climates, M.A. Pikosky and A.J. Young