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Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Nutrition Desk Reference Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition

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While the gastrointestinal tract ingests, digests, and absorbs nutrients, the liver transforms nutrients, synthesizes plasma proteins, and detoxifies bacteria and toxins absorbed from the gut. It is therefore not surprising that gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases have a major impact on the nutritional state of the individual. Integrating nutrition and the gastrointestinal system, the Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Nutrition Desk Reference brings together experts in the field of nutrition, gastroenterology, and hepatology to offer dietary, nutritional, and natural therapies for gastrointestinal and hepatic ailments in order to improve overall health.

Providing a review of the digestive tract, liver, and core concepts, this important reference presents the nutritional consequences and considerations of digestive disorders. Contributors examine the role of nutrition in gastrointestinal and liver disease, including alcoholic and nonalcoholic liver disease, viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, malabsorption, colorectal disease, transplantation, pancreatitis, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Of special interest to the practitioner are chapters on food allergy and intolerance, the effects of medicinal plants, and the role of fiber in the gastrointestinal tract. The reference also addresses the challenges of managing nutritional issues for hospitalized patients and covers eating disorders and ethical issues.

Details

Title Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Nutrition Desk Reference
Author Gerard E. Mullin (Editor); Laura E. Matarese (Editor); Melissa Palmer (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 506
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher CRC Press
Date 2011-09-08
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781439812648 / 1439812640
Weight 2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)
Dimensions 10.1 x 7.1 x 1.3 in (25.65 x 18.03 x 3.30 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Gastrointestinal system - Diseases -, Liver - Diseases - Nutritional aspects
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011027954
Dewey Decimal Code 616.330

About the author

Gerard E. Mullin, MD, is an associate professor in the department of medicine as well as director of integrative gastroenterology nutrition services at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is an internist, gastroenterologist, and nutritionist and the only physician in the United States who is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine for Gastroenterology, National Board of Nutrition Support Certification, American College of Nutrition, and the American Board of Nutrition Physician Specialists.

Laura E. Matarese, PhD, RD, LDN, FADA, CNSD, is an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of nutrition for the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Center at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She is the author of over 150 books, chapters, manuscripts, abstracts, and videos and currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals.

Melissa Palmer, MD, is medical director of hepatology at New York University Hepatology Associates Plainview and clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center. She graduated from Columbia University with a BA and was trained in hepatology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She is the author of the best-selling book Dr. Melissa Palmer's Guide to Hepatitis and Liver Disease and runs the popular liver website www.liverdisease.com.