Metabolic Issues of Clinical Nutrition

9th Nestlé Nutrition Workshop, Bangkok, November 2003

S. P. Allison, V. L. W. Go, Allison, Go

• Publisher: S. Karger
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9783805577564
• eBook ISBN:
  9783318010909
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nutrition, Dietics & Bariatrics

As widely spread health problems related to over- and undernutrition have grown nowadays to an epidemic extent and even prevail over infectious diseases, a better knowledge of the metabolic basis of clinical nutrition has become essential. The extremes of the nutritional spectrum, undernutrition and obesity, are no longer considered as isolated opposites with different effects on separate risk groups, but paradoxically prove to be interacting in a setting of rapidly changing lifestyles, as is presently the case worldwide. Recurring issues such as insulin resistance, changes in intermediary metabolism, fluid and electrolyte physiology, genetic and non-genetic inheritance are highlighted, as well as the biological linkage between maternal undernutrition and the development of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease in later life. The problems at stake present a new and enormous challenge for future healthcare policies and, therefore, are better tackled today. This book will be an interesting source of knowledge for internists, family physicians, pediatricians, dieticians, endocrinologists, gastroenterologists, and public health officers.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Foreword
• Contributors
• Under- and Overnutrition: A Global Perspective
• Environmental Influences on Diseases in Later Life
• Insulin Sensitivity: Normal and Abnormal
• Insulin Resistance in Catabolic Diseases
• Mechanisms of Insulin-Induced Alterations in Metabolism during Critical Illness
• The Metabolic Syndrome as a Clinical Problem
• The Effect of Exercise and Diet on Glucose Intolerance and Substrate Utilization?
• Muscle Mass and Protein Metabolism
• Fatty Acid Isomers in Lipid Metabolism
• Pathogenic Role of Inflammatory Cytokines in Obesity: From Insulin Resistance to Diabetes mellitus
• Diet Modifications to Control Hypertension: The Multifactorial Approach
• The Role of Minerals and Trace Elements in Relation to Long-Term Health and Chronic Disease
• Fluid and Electrolytes in the Clinical Setting
• Water and Sodium Balance: A Nutritional Goal
• Neuro-Hormonal Integration of Metabolism: Challenges and Opportunities in the Postgenomic Era
• Nutrition and Genomics
• Subject Index