The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care (PDF)

The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care

Edited by

Darwin Deen, MD, MS

Lisa Hark, PhD, RD

Clinicians and patients agree that primary care office visits
should include routine nutrition assessment and counseling. But how
do you fit it into an already crowded consultation? And what is the
most up-to-date advice?

With The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care, Drs. Deen
and Hark provide the necessary tools. This comprehensive overview
of nutrition answers your questions on:

* Nutrition as Preventive Medicine

* Nutrition through the Lifecycle

* Improving Health by Changing Diet and Lifestyle
Behaviors

* Vitamins, Minerals, Dietary Supplements, and the
Alternative

* Successful Changes to the Environment

This timely paperback contains everything the primary care
clinician needs to counsel patients on diet and lifestyle issues.
Keep it close at hand for the frequent consultation it is sure to
receive.

Dr. Darwin Deen is one of the nation's foremost
authorities on nutrition. Currently Professor of Clinical, Family
and Social Medicine and Director of Medical Student Education at
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, he has trained
a generation of physicians on the connection between nutrition and
health. He has played a leading role in revising medical school
curricula to incorporate nutrition training. An award-winning
teacher and noted author, he serves as Chair of the Task Force on
Medical Nutrition Education of the American College of Nutrition
and co-chairs the Group on Nutrition of the Society of Teachers of
Family Medicine. His years of experience as a family physician make
him perfectly suited to advise clinicians on counseling their
patients on diet and lifestyle.

Dr. Lisa Hark is a renowned family nutrition expert, with more
than 20 years of experience in nutrition counseling and promoting
the benefits of healthy eating in children and adults. As Director
of the Nutrition Education Program at the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, she developed a
model medical school curriculum and textbook, Medical Nutrition and
Disease, which has become one of the most widely used texts in
nutrition education. She was given the Excellence in Medical/Dental
Nutrition Education award from the American Society for Nutrition.
Dr. Hark was also the host of the TV show, "Honey,
We're Killing the Kids," which airs on TLC, and is a
widely sought after speaker who communicates nutrition concepts
effectively to health professionals, patients, and the media.

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