Preventive Nutrition

Part I Global Issues.- Preventive Nutrition: From Public to Personal Recommendations and Approaches to Behavior Change.- Public Health Benefits of Preventive Nutrition:  Global Perspective.- Nutritional and Dietary Supplements - Code or Concern.- The Trans Pacific Partnership: Global nutrition at risk.- Nutrient density and health: How to develop global nutrient density metrics.- The Influence of Polypharmacy on Nutrition.- Diet-gene interactions: haptoglobin genotype and nutrient status.- Part II Cancer Prevention.- The Role of Diet and Nutrition in Lung Cancer.- Epigenetics of Endocrine Tumors in Women and Dietary Prevention.- The role of nutrition and diet in prostate cancer.- Dietary Supplements and Cancer Risk:  Epidemiologic Research and Recommendations.- Nonnutritive Components in Foods and Cancer Risk.- Part III Cardiovascular Disease Prevention.- Diet Quality and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention.-  N-3 and N-6 fatty acids Reduce Risk for Cardiovascular Disease.- Trans Fatty Acids: summary of the evidence relating consumption to cardiovascular outcomes and the efficacy of prevention policy to reduce levels in the food supply.- Nutrition Aspects of Stroke Prevention.- B Vitamins Influence Vascular Cognitive Impairment.- Part IV Diabetes and Obesity.- Childhood obesity: new paradigms on susceptibility, co-morbidities and interventions.- The Women's Health Initiative: Lessons for Preventive Nutrition.- Role of Fiber in the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes.- Nutrition Issues and Recommendations in the Management of Diabetes and Prediabetes in Older Adults.- The Effects of Diabetes and Obesity on the Skeleton.- Nutritional Concerns for Bariatric Surgery.- Composition, Production, Consumption and Health Effects of Added Sugars.- Low calorie sweeteners and weight management

Adrianne Bendich, Ph.D., is the president of Consultants in Consumer Healthcare LLC. She is an internationally recognized expert on women's health, calcium and vitamin D in bone health, folic acid and pregnancy outcomes, and the effects of antioxidants and carotenoids on immune functions. She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and is the editor of 10 books for health professionals. Prior to her position at Consultants in Consumer Healthcare, she was the associate director of clinical nutrition research at Roche Vitamins, the director of innovation at SmithKlineBeecham/GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and the director of medical affairs at GSK Consumer Healthcare. She was corporate representative to the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) for 9 years because GSK Consumer Healthcare provided all calcium and vitamin D supplements for the WHI study. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark. Dr. Bendich is also series editor of the Nutrition and Health book series.

Dr. Deckelbaum received his B.Sc. in 1963, and his M.D. and C.M. in 1967 from McGill University. Dr. Deckelbaum's research interests concern human plasma lipoproteins, and the cellular effects of dietary fats and free fatty acids. His research has been supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, the US Agency for International Development, and private industry.

His work has contributed to better understanding of mechanisms whereby human lipoproteins are structurally remodeled in the plasma compartment, factors modulating receptor-lipoprotein interactions, and nutrient-gene interactions. He has also led international NIH and USAID programs integrating nutrition with risk factors of cardiovascular disease in children of different genetic backgrounds, as well as the molecular biology of intestinal parasites with clinical and epidemiological manifestations of infection, with emphasis on

"Each chapter is amply referenced. A very useful book for nutritionists, diabetologists, endocrinologists and general practitioners." (Zvi Laron, Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, Vol. 13 (4), June, 2016)


"This is the fifth edition of book on preventive nutrition that was first published in 1997. ... This could be a nice addition for nutrition graduate students as well as for hospital and other health institution libraries. ... This edition, like the previous one, is quite interesting, informative, and up to date. It would be a good addition to any healthcare professional's resources." (Amy Hess-Fischl, Doody's Book Reviews, April, 2016)