Nutritional Concerns of Women, Second Edition.
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Dorothy Klimis-Zacas; Ira Wolinsky
- ناشر : London : CRC Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2003
- شابک / ISBN : 9780203507902
Description
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Women's Health, Nutrition and Research; Major Diet-Related Risk Factors for Women; Gender, Culture and Nutrition; Nutritional Needs of Female Adolescents; Premenstrual Syndrome: Nutritional Implications; Nutritional Guidelines During Pregnancy and Lactation; Hormonal Oral Contraception and Nutrition: Vitamins and Minerals; Menopause and Nutrition; Nutritional Considerations of Older Women; Eating Disorders: Metabolic Complications and Therapy; Nutritional Anemias; Diet and Osteoporosis; Nutritional Issues of Cardiovascular Disease in Women. Diabetes: A Woman's Disease?Nutritional Issues in Arthritis and Rheumatic Disease; Thyroid Hormones in Health and Disease; Nutritional Factors in Women's Cancers: Breast, Cervical, Endometrial and Ovarian; Women and Weight: A Model-Based Perspective; Nutritional Concerns of Female Recreational Athletes; Nutrition and Vegetarianism; Nutrition Issues of Women in the U.S. Army; Appendix; Index.
Women's health and nutrition concerns have moved to the forefront of research with the mandate by the National Institutes of Health to include women in formerly male-only studies assessing responses to diet and disease. This second edition of a popular and highly praised resource provides new research results that detail the prevalence of and different manifestations of diseases in women. With more contributions by leading authorities, it includes new chapters on obesity, diabetes, thyroid diseases, and musculoskeletal and rheumatic nutrition in the adolescent female, menopause and vegetariani.
