Chapter 1 Incorporating Nutrition into the Primary Care Practice
Chapter 2 Personalization of Nutrition Advice
Chapter 3 Nutrition and the Immune System
Chapter 4 Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Disorders
Chapter 5 Approach to the Overweight and Obese Patient: The Elephant in the Room
Chapter 6 Evolution of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Chapter 7 Managing Diabetes without Weight Gain
Chapter 8 Fatty Liver Disease
Chapter 9 Lipid Disorders and Management
Chapter 10 Nutrition and Coronary Artery Disease
Chapter 11 Hypertension and Obesity
Chapter 12 Nutrition, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Kidney Failure
Chapter 13 Nutrition and Heart Failure
Chapter 14 Pulmonary Function, Asthma, and Obesity
Chapter 15 Frailty, Nutrition, and the Elderly
Chapter 16 Nutrition in Neurodegenerative Disorders and Cognitive Impairment
Chapter 17 Gene–Nutrient Interaction
Chapter 18 Nutrition and the Risk of Common Forms of Cancer
Chapter 19 Nutrition and the Cancer Patient
Chapter 20 Writing the Nutrition Prescription
David Heber, MD, PhD, FACP, FASN, is a professor emeritus of
medicine and public health at the David Geffen School of Medicine
at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is
internationally prominent in the fields of nutrition, metabolism,
and obesity and its associated complications. He is also a founding
director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition and a founding
chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the UCLA Department
of Medicine where he directed multiple National Institutes of
Health–funded research programs, including the UCLA Clinical
Nutrition Research Unit, the UCLA Dietary Supplements Research
Center: Botanicals and the UCLA Nutrition and Obesity Training
Grant. Dr. Heber is the founding chair of the Herbalife Nutrition
Institute, and is a member of the McCormick Science Institute.
Dr. Heber is board certified in internal medicine, and
endocrinology and metabolism by the American Board of Internal
Medicine and is a certified physician nutrition specialist. He
earned his MD at Harvard Medical School and his PhD in physiology
at the UCLA. Dr. Heber served as chair of the Medical Nutrition
Council of the American Society for Nutrition and, in 2014, was
elected as a fellow of the American Society for Nutrition, the
highest honor of the society. He has been listed multiple times
since 2000 as one of the Best Doctors in America including
2015–2016 based on a survey of over 35,000 physicians in the United
States. In 2014, according to Reuters News Agency, he was in the
top 1% of cited authors in the field of agricultural sciences and
was listed as one of the most influential scientific minds of
2014.
Dr. Heber’s primary areas of research are obesity treatment and
prevention, and the role of nutrition, phytonutrients, and
botanical dietary supplements in the prevention and treatment of
common forms of cancer and cardiovascular disease. He has published
seminal research articles on the causes of obesity, weight loss
strategies, and the relationship of obesity to cancer and
cardiovascular disease, and is the author of over 250 peer-reviewed
scientific articles, over 50 book chapters, several professional
texts, and four books for the public including “What Color Is Your
Diet?” and “ The LA Shape Diet.”
Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD, is the director of the Center for Human
Nutrition, chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition, and a Lynda
and Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Human Nutrition at David
Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA). Currently, she is the vice president of National
Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists, the president of the
World Association of Chinese Doctors in Clinical Nutrition, and a
member of American Society for Nutrition Medical Nutrition
Council.
Dr. Li is board certified in internal medicine and a physician
nutrition specialist. She completed her MD and PhD in physiology at
Beijing University, China and has been a faculty member at UCLA.
She is leading the Center for Human Nutrition to have vigorous
research programs in nutrition, microbiome, and metabolism;
providing mentorship and didactic and informal training for young
scientists, premed, medical students, medical residents, fellows,
and clinicians; and directing clinical programs that specialize in
metabolic diseases, bariatric medicine, gastrointestinal diseases,
and cancer prevention/treatment.
For nearly three decades, Dr Li’s research interest has focused on
translational research in the role of macronutrients and
phytochemicals in the prevention and treatment of obesity-related
chronic diseases. She has been a principal investigator for over 50
investigator-initiated National Institutes of Health– and
industry-sponsored clinical trials and published over 150
peer-reviewed papers in journals such as JAMA, Annals of Internal
Medicine, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Journal of
American Dietetic Association.
This informative manual is aimed at primary care
professionals—specifically physicians—who understand the need
to incorporate food and nutrition recommendations into patient care
yet require guidance that is not readily available from reputable
sources. Heber and Li, practicing and research physicians with
UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, make the case that
nutritional guidance is vitally relevant to the physician's realm
of care. They discuss how to supplement drugs and surgery with the
endorsement of personalized nutrition prescriptions that identify
dietary, resistance exercise, and behavior change recommendations
to prevent and treat common chronic diseases. Included in the
discussion of nutrition-related conditions are topics such as the
immune system, gastrointestinal disorders, eating disorders,
obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease, lipid disorders, heart
disease and heart failure, hypertension, renal disease, pulmonary
function and asthma, elder care, neurodegenerative disorders and
cognitive impairment, gene-nutrient interactions, and cancer. Each
evidence-based chapter is succinct yet well-referenced.
--A. P. Boyar, CUNY Herbert H. Lehman College
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