Medicina / Nutrizione

Beating Cancer with Nutrition: Optimal Nutrition Can Improve Outcome in Medically-Treated Cancer Patients.

di Patrick Quillin

Optimal nutrition works synergistically with modern oncology procedures and can dramatically improve the quality and quantity of life for cancer patients. Nutrition helps to harness the incredible healing power...

Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a

di Dharma Singh, M.D. Khalsa

Food is the original medicine. Food is the best medicine.

From Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa, acclaimed author of the national bestseller Meditation as Medicine, comes Food as Medicine -- a remarkable book that balances...

Eating Disorders For Dummies

di Susan Schulherr

Do you think that you or someone you love may suffer from and eating disorder? Eating Disorders For Dummies gives you the straight facts you need to make sense of what’s happening inside you and offers a simple...

Nutrition and Cancer

di Clare Shaw

Nutrition plays a crucial role in supporting patients receiving treatment for cancer. Carefully considered nutritional options can help to manage patients with weight loss and cachexia, support the patient's...

Feed Your Pet Right

di Marion Nestle & Malden Nesheim

Human nutrition expert and author of the critically acclaimed What to Eat, Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., has joined forces with Malden C. Nesheim, Ph.D., a Cornell animal nutrition expert, to write Feed Your...

Gentle Healing for Baby and Child: A Parent's Guide to Child-Friendly Herbs and Other

di Andrea Candee & David Andrusia

Give your child the gift of natural health

When your children are sick or injured, you want them to feel better -- fast. Although in some cases there is no substitute for traditional medical care, prescription...

Grocery Makeover: Small Changes for Big Results

di Julie Feldman

Are your grocery shopping trips less than inspiring? Do you write the same list of items, week after week, and trudge through the store on autopilot? Have you been stocking the same ingredients in your pantry...

Handbook of Milk Composition

di Unknown Author

This informative treatise offers a concise collection of existing, expert data summarizing the composition of milk. The Handbook of Milk Composition summarizes current information on all aspects of human and...

Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease

di Carol J. Boushey, Ann M. Coulston & Cheryl L. Rock

As we enter the 21st century, a new era of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of disease emerges. Clinical nutrition involves the integration of diet, genetics, environment, and behavior promoting health...

Foodborne Infections and Intoxications

di J. Glenn Morris Jr. & Morris Potter

The accelerated globalization of the food supply, coupled with toughening government standards, is putting global food production, distribution, and retail industries under a high-intensity spotlight. High publicity...

Wine Science: Principles, Practice, Perception

di Ronald S. Jackson

The second edition of Wine Science: Principles, Practice, Perception updates the reader with current processes and methods of wine science, including an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of various...

Culinary Nutrition: The Science and Practice of Healthy Cooking

di Jacqueline B. Marcus

Culinary Nutrition: The Science and Practice of Healthy Cooking is the first textbook specifically written to connect food science, nutrition and culinology. The book uses real-life applications, recipes and...

An A-Z Guide to Healing Foods: A Shopper's Reference

di Deborah Collins Stephens

Filled with science, natural remedies and modern wisdom, this portable and concise reference is needed by those confused by the all the claims of superfoods or who want to make an informed decision about what...

Beer in Health and Disease Prevention

di Victor R. Preedy

Presenting both the concerns and problems of beer consumption as well as the emerging evidence of benefit, Beer in Health and Disease Prevention offers a balanced view of today's findings and the potential of...

Foodomics: Advanced Mass Spectrometry in Modern Food Science and Nutrition

di A. Cifuentes

This book introduces the principles of foodomics through the review of advanced Mass Spectrometry (MS) technologies applied to this new discipline. The coverage details specific "omics" approaches based on MS...

Nutritional Management of Renal Disease

di Joel D. Kopple, Shaul G Massry & Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh

This translational text offers in-depth reviews of the metabolic and nutritional disorders that are prevalent in patients with renal disease. Chapter topics address the growing epidemic of obesity and metabolic...

Nutrigenetics: Applying the Science of Personal Nutrition

di Martin Kohlmeier

Nutrigenetics: Applying the Science of Personal Nutrition provides a fully referenced, readable guide to understanding the rationale and importance of nutrigenetic applications and explains why single nutrition...

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease: Bioactive Foods in Chronic Disease States

di Ronald Ross Watson & Victor Preedy

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease provides valuable insights for those seeking nutritional treatment options for those suffering from liver and/or related gastrointestinal...

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Diabetes: Bioactive Foods in Chronic Disease States

di Ronald Ross Watson & Victor Preedy

The role of diet in the prevention, control and treatment of diabetes continues to provide significant opportunity for non-pharmaceutical interventions for many of the over 20 million people who live with this...

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for the Aging Population: Bioactive Foods in Chronic Disease States

di Ronald Ross Watson & Victor Preedy

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for the Aging Population presents scientific evidence of the impact bioactive foods can have in the prevention and mediation of age related diseases. Written by experts...