Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related Healthcare Professionals (2017)

Part I: Nutrition Across the Lifespan.- Pregnancy: Preparation for the Next Generation.- Infants: Transition from Breast to Bottle to Solids.- Young Children: Preparing for the Future.- Nutrition in Adolescence.- Nutritional Challenges of Girls and Women.- Healthy Aging: Nutrition Concepts for Older Adults.- Eating Disorders: Disorders of Under and Overnutrition.- Obesity: Understanding and Achieving a Healthy Weight.- Nutrition Therapy Effectiveness for the Treatment of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: Prioritizing Recommendations Based on Evidence.- Lifestyle Interventions to Stem the Tide of Type 2 Diabetes.- Coronary Heart Disease: Nutritional Interventions for Prevention and Therapy.- Diet and Blood Pressure: The High and Low of it.- Role of Nutrition in Understanding Common Gastrointestinal Disorders.- Nutrition in Patients with Diseases of the Liver and Pancreas.- Medical Nutrition Therapy for Kidney Related Disorders.- Inherited Metabolic Disorders and Nutritional Genomics: Choosing the Wrong Parents.- Food Allergy and Intolerance: Diagnosis and Nutritional Management.- Hone Health: Sound Suggestions for Stronger Bones.- Diet, Physical Activity, and Cancer Prevention.- Vegetarian and Vegan Diets: Weighing the Claims.- Dietary Recommendations for Non-Alcoholic Beverages.- What is Best for the Patient: Abstinence or Moderate Alcohol Consumption?.- Dietary Fiber: All Fibers are not Alike.- Dietary Fate: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.- Vitamins: The Essentials.- Mineral Nutrients: from Macro-Level to Ultra Trace.- Issues of Food Safety and Quality: Are "Organic" Food Better?.- What is a Healthy Diet? From Nutritional Science to Food Guides.- Dietary Reference Intakes: Cutting through the Confusion.- Food Labels and Sources of Nutrients: Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff.- Achieving Dietary Change: the Role of the Physician.- Dietary Supplements: Navigating a Minefield.- A Plague of False and Misleading Information.- Drug Interactions with Food and Beverages.- Nutritional Status: An Overview of Methods for Assessment.- Nutritional Considerations following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy.