Community Nutrition: Applying Epidemiology to Contemporary Practice - Second Edition

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Author: Gail Frank, DrPH, RD. CHES, California State University - Long Beach
ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-3062-8    
ISBN-10: 0-7637-3062-9
Format: Hardcover, 600 Pages

This graduate-level textbook presents community nutrition as a collaboration between the nutritional needs of a society and the practice of the profession. The text provides a conceptual framework for understanding the course of health and disease, and matching community nutrition or applied nutrition epidemiology to the model. This Second Edition has been thoroughly updated with the latest dietary information: MyPyramid, the 2005 Dietary Guidelines, and current dietary guidance. Community Nutrition not only covers general population nutrition, but also explores infant, childhood, and adolescent nutrition as well as men and women's health.

New to the Second Edition

The Second Edition provide the latest nutritional research on:

• Hypertension, coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and HIV
• Obesity and weight management in both children and adults
• Health claims and food labels
• Popular diets
• Vegetarianism
• Hunger
  

Table of Contents

Part 1: Community Nutrition
Chapter 1: Epidemiology - The Foundation of Community Nutrition
Chapter 2: Nutrition overview
Chapter 3: The Community Nutrition Professional
Chapter 4: Working with Special Groups in a Complex Environment
Chapter 5: Nutrition Policy, Health Care Reform, and Population-Based Change

Part 2: Primary Preventions of Disease
Chapter 6: Food-Borne Illness
Chapter 7: Healthy Eating in Early Life - Infants and Preschoolers
Chapter 8: Nutrition for School-Age Children
Chapter 9: Adults and Their Nutrition Needs
Chapter 10: Older Adults

Part 3: Secondary and Tertiary Prevention - Managing Disease and Avoiding Complications
Chapter 11: Coronary Hearth Disease
Chapter 12: Cancer
Chapter 13: Diabetes Mellitus
Chapter 14: Hypertension
Chapter 15: Obesity
Chapter 16: Debilitating Diseases - Osteoporosis, Alcoholism, Arthritis, and Renal Disease
Chapter 17: Preventing Single and Cluster Diseases