Starvation and Malnutrition: Medical Nutrition and Public Health

Starvation and Malnutrition: Medical Nutrition and Public Health is a carefully designed selection of chapters written by experts on emerging and controversial topics in starvation and malnutrition. Edited by a distinguished nutritional scientist and an experienced medical provider, the book is a timely contribution to the field. In addition to addressing etiologies at a high degree of resolution, it introduces and evaluates emerging and controversial interventions across the age spectrum. Dietary interventions, such as the amino acid metabolite, hydroxymethylbutyrate (HMB), L-Arginine, L-Glutamine, omega-3 fatty acids, beta-glucan, and a spectrum of food-derived bioactives are covered relative to restoration of age-appropriate nutritional status and functionality. Finally, a series of special topics, including refeeding syndromes and their management is detailed for applications in breastfeeding, HIV, extended starvation or fasting, and even implications of potential nutritional toxicology. In addition, critical agricultural practices within the global community are analyzed with respect to nutrition adequacy, crop management, and a spectrum of attributes that impact the safety and availability of locally grown foods. Includes advances in science and clinical interventionsReviews agricultural practices with respect to nutrition adequacyCovers the impact of age, gender and culture on malnutrition and starvationExplores the effects on fasting and breastfeedingIdentifies specific inflammatory mechanisms that promote accelerated catabolismProvides the nutritional functionality of different dietary interventions, including bioactives and micronutrientsDiscusses the social and political impact of malnutrition and starvation INDICE: 1. Present and Emerging Concepts of Malnutrition and Starvation 2. Social and Political Implications of Malnutrition and Starvation 3-6. Pathophysiology of Malnutrition and Starvation Across Etiologic Subtypes, Age Cohorts, Gender, and Culture, i.e. 3. Malnutrition: pathophysiology 4. Starvation: pathophysiology 5. The Anthropology of Malnutrition - the impact of gender, cohort, and culture 6. The Anthropology of Starvation - the impact of gender, cohort, and culture 7-27. Medical Nutrition Issues and Therapies for Malnutrition and Starvation by Anatomic System (including endothelium and microbiome) and illness category (including oral and dental health, psychiatry, and cognitive/developmental syndromes),i.e., chapters highlighting system specific issues; GI - proximal and distal alimentary tract; hepatobiliary and pancreatic function; endocrine/psychoneuro-endo-immunologic systemic axes, exocrine and apocrine systems; hematologic; cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal, and neurologic architecture and function... with a comprehensive and orderly approach to following set of chapters focusing on malnutrition and starvation in the setting of the spectrum of cancers, HIV illness, autoimmune illness, commonly occurring infectious illness, typical post-surgical conditions (including that of bariatric surgery, trauma, etc) 28. The Molecular Anthropology of Malnutrition and the Impact of Clinal Variations in Gene Frequency 29. The spectrum of surgical Comorbidities and Malnutrition pathophysiology and approaches to therapeutic intervention 30. Malnutrition and Toxicology: Impact and management of compromised processing of innate toxins in the setting of malnutrition and starvation; especially salient in an era of plant-based diets 31. The Challenge of Characterizing and Managing Patients with Hunger Strikes, Eating Disorders, and Associated Refeeding Syndromes: From anorexia nervosa to Guantanamo 32. Confounding and Intervening Health, History, and Lifestyle Profiles 33. Special Topics including Dietary and Nutritional Status Assessments (including cellular phone enabled photo-anthropometric software)

• ISBN: 978-0-12-813655-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 560
• Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2019
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés