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Now published in two volumes to accommodate new chapters on the many advances in understanding and treatment options, this set of volumes represents the definitive reference on inflammatory bowel disease, a spectrum of diseases that is receiving increasing attention as our understanding of the etiological factors increases and diagnostic tools are refined. Basic research accelerated at the beginning of this decade and is now yielding new, more targeted treatments than were available just a few years ago. Volume 1 is on IBD and Ulcerative Colitis, and Volume 2 is on IBD and Crohn's Disease. All areas that were covered in the 2nd edition have been expanded and updated. New sections include the...
A study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on slavery and racism.
Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes. The collection’s focus on cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons across Asia brings into view a broad spectrum of modern Asia that extends from East Asia, Southeast Asia, to South Asia, as well as into global communities of Western knowledge, practice, and power outside Asia. The first section, “Good Foods,” focuses on how food norms and rules have been established in modern Asia. Ide...
Abstract: An authoritative handbook for physicians, surgeons, dietitians, and nurses involved in nutritional management offers practical summaries of current practices in nutrition from the point of view of both medical science and practical dietetics. The 39 overview papers comprising the text are organized among 14 topic areas, including normal nutrition, specialized diets (vegetarian, kosher), nutritional assessment, nutritional needs (in children, infants and pregnancy), and food allergies; transitional diets; enteral alimentation; parenteral feeding; caloric modifications for weight gain and loss; carbohydrate disorders; fat, protein, mineral, and fiber modified diets and their applications; specialized diets for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders, childhood epilepsy, and inborn metabolic errors; and the effects of alcoholic intake. Numerous data tables are presented throughout the text and a bibliography is given at the end of each paper. (wz).