Overview
- Includes assessment and intervention algorithms for IFMNT
- Contains up-to-date information and strategies for medical and health professionals
- Includes a systems biology approach that considers physiological and biochemical mechanisms and their nutritional and lifestyle influences
- Presents current and future trends in this emerging field
- Includes clear learning objectives, key points, and section summaries geared toward courses in medical, nursing, nutrition and allied health education
- Provides case studies, checklists, patient and practitioner handouts, suggested readings, figures, illustrations, and video links
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This textbook is a practical guide to the application of the philosophy and principles of Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy (IFMNT) in the practice of medicine, and the key role nutrition plays in restoring and maintaining wellness. The textbook provides an overview of recent reviews and studies of physiological and biochemical contributions to IFMNT and address nutritional influences in human heath overall, including poor nutrition, genomics, environmental toxicant exposures, fractured human interactions, limited physical movement, stress, sleep deprivation, and other lifestyle factors. Ultimately, this textbook serves to help practitioners, healthcare systems, and policy makers better understand this different and novel approach to complex chronic disorders. It provides the reader with real world examples of applications of the underlying principles and practices of integrative/functional nutrition therapies and presents the most up-to-date intervention strategies and clinical tools to help the reader keep abreast of developments in this emerging specialty field. Many chapters include comprehensive coverage of the topic and clinical applications with supplementary learning features such as case studies, take-home messages, patient and practitioner handouts, algorithms, and suggested readings.
Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy: Principles and Practices will serve as an invaluable guide for healthcare professionals in their clinical application of nutrition, lifestyle assessment, and intervention for each unique, individual patient.
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Table of contents (60 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global Healthcare Challenge of the Twenty-First Century and the Future of Chronic Disease
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Metabolic Characteristics and Mechanisms of Chronic Disease
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Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Diana Noland, MPH, RDN, CCN
Sequoia Family Medicine
Burbank, CA
USA
Jeanne A. Drisko, MD, CNS, FACN
Professor Emeritus
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
USA
Leigh Wagner, PhD, MS, RDN, LD
Department of Dietetics & Nutrition
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy
Book Subtitle: Principles and Practices
Editors: Diana Noland, Jeanne A. Drisko, Leigh Wagner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30730-1
Publisher: Humana Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30729-5Published: 03 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30732-5Published: 18 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30730-1Published: 27 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 1101
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 200 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition