Main description:

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:

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

A health professional's comprehensive nutrition handbook that includes all nutrients, nutrient functions, "good" and "excellent" sources of nutrients, nutrient assessment, and deficiency symptoms, as well as summaries of foods, food groups, and phytochemicals.

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

Features:

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

Contents:

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Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Author

Chapter A

Chapter B

Chapter C

Chapter D

Chapter E

Chapter F

Chapter G

Chapter H

Chapter I

Chapter J

Chapter K

Chapter L

Chapter M

Chapter N

Chapter O

Chapter P

Chapter Q

Chapter R

Chapter S

Chapter T

Chapter U

Chapter V

Chapter W

Chapter X

Chapter Y

Chapter Z

Appendix 1: Major Phytochemical Groups and Specific Phytochemicals Addressed in The A-Z Guide to Food as Medicine, 2nd ed

Appendix 2: Reference Daily Intakes Used to Calculate % DVs in The A-Z Guide to Food as Medicine, 2nd ed

Appendix 3: Definitions of Drug Terms Used in The A-Z Guide to Food as Medicine, 2nd ed

Index