Encyclopedia of Diets - A Guide to Health and Nutrition

concerns, such as seniors, pregnant women, people with diabetes, and others. My Optimum Health Plan, the online version of Dr. W ...

groups. This may make the program easier to follow for these groups, and dieters may appreciate the spe- cial attention given to ...

Resources BOOKS Shannon, Joyce Brennfleck ed.Diet and Nutrition Source- book. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2006. Weil, Andrew.Eigh ...

and ‘‘burns’’ (glossitis), that changes in taste have occurred, and that cracks have appeared on the lips and at the corners of ...

Fluoride and Oral Health No discussion of nutrition and oral health would be complete without mentioning the role of the micro- ...

market for smaller, family-style farms. In the early 1980s this method of food production began to gain popularity, especially i ...

disease, and have access to the outdoors. This last requirement is rather vague, as regulations set neither a minimum amount of ...

Parental concerns Chemicals found in foods may have a greater effect on the growth and development of younger children than olde ...

Inside the human body, orlistat diminishes the production of pancreatic lipase, which is an enzyme that decomposestriglyceridesw ...

hearing loss, painful or difficult urination along with frequent urges to urinate, and ear pain and earache. If these side effec ...

Hofbauer, Karl G., Ulrich Keller, and Olivier Boss.Phar- macotherapy of Obesity: Options and Alternatives. Boca Raton, FL: CRC P ...

shows no symptoms until bones become so weak that they fracture from a seemingly minor bump of fall. All bones in the body may b ...

Diagnosis Diagnosis begins with a medical history to deter- mine whether what risk factors the individual has. The physician may ...

Individuals need to get the RDA for calcium and vitamin D beginning in childhood and continuing through old age. Exercise at any ...

recognition. As recent as 30 years ago it was thought weak and broken bones was an unavoidable conse- quence of growing old. In ...

and deposit it in the bone. A deficiency in Vitamin D can cause a softening of the bone. Rickets in children and osteomalacia in ...

As with calcium, evidence from surveys show that intake levels fall below the recommendations. In the USA, the NHANES (1999-2000 ...

Protein sources include lean red meat, poultry, eggs, fish and diary as well as legumes (lentils, kidney beans), tofu, soymilk, ...

reduces the risk of an osteoporotic fracture by 50% during adulthood. Once peak bone mass s is achieved, bone turnover is stable ...

servings of dairy reported a 27% lower incidence of kidney stones than those who did not. However, higher levels of supplemental ...