Nutrition and the Killer Diseases (Construction Management and Engineering Series) (Volume 10)

Explores the relationship between nutrition and the three leading killers of adult Americans: atherosclerosis, hypertension, and diabetes. Provides nutrition and health care professionals with useful guidelines for preventive strategies and therapeutic interventions by examining the importance of nutrition in the etiology of these diseases, including ways in which nutrition acts synergistically with genetic tendencies to allow the expression of disease; surveying new approaches to altering nutritional patterns in order to lower the incidence of these diseases; and discussing the control of diet in the management of the diseases.