TY - BOOK ID - 32840927 TI - Dietary Fiber in Health and Disease PY - 2018 SN - 3319505572 3319505556 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana, DB - UniCat KW - Medicine. KW - Health promotion. KW - Clinical nutrition. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Clinical Nutrition. KW - Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. KW - Fiber in human nutrition. KW - Fiber deficiency diseases. KW - Dietary fiber KW - Fiber in the diet KW - Roughage in the diet KW - Nutrition KW - Dietary fiber deficiency KW - Deficiency diseases KW - High-fiber diet KW - Personal health and hygiene. KW - Health Workforce KW - Health promotion programs KW - Health promotion services KW - Promotion of health KW - Wellness programs KW - Preventive health services KW - Health education KW - Clinical nutrition KW - Diet KW - Diet and disease KW - Dietotherapy KW - Food KW - Medical nutrition therapy KW - MNT (Medical nutrition therapy) KW - Nutrition therapy KW - Dietetics KW - Therapeutics, Physiological KW - Therapeutic use UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32840927 AB - This newest addition to the Nutrition and Health series is a comprehensive, yet portable, guide to the use of dietary fiber for the management of health and disease. Dietary Fiber in Health and Disease covers all sources of dietary fiber with a focus on preventing and managing chronic diseases. Each chapter contains a careful analysis with many figures and tables of the most recent human dietary fiber studies and includes specific recommendations on the fiber types and intake levels required to prevent and manage chronic disease and improve health. Additionally, physicians, dietitians, nurses, nutritionists, pharmacists, food industry scientists, academic researchers and educators, naturopathic doctors, and other health professionals will be drawn to the practical, ready-to-use information and coverage of subjects such as fiber in gastrointestinal health and disease, fiber in cancer prevention, fiber in Type 2 Diabetes, and fiber in body weight and composition. Dietary Fiber in Health and Disease will be of interest to physicians and other healthcare professionals in many different specialties, including general practitioners, oncologists, endocrinologists, and other practitioners looking to implement dietary advice as part of the patient treatment plan. ER -