TY - BOOK ID - 32841896 TI - Dietary Patterns and Whole Plant Foods in Aging and Disease PY - 2018 SN - 3319591800 3319591797 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana, DB - UniCat KW - Aging KW - Chronic diseases KW - Nutritional aspects. KW - Medicine. KW - Health promotion. KW - Clinical nutrition. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Clinical Nutrition. KW - Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. KW - Diseases, Chronic KW - NCDs (Noncommunicable diseases) KW - Non-communicable diseases KW - Non-infectious diseases KW - Noncommunicable diseases KW - Diseases KW - Nutrition KW - Personal health and hygiene. KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians 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:32841896 AB - This text provides a comprehensive review of the latest research on the effects of dietary patterns and whole plant foods on general health, aging, and cardiometabolic disease risk from major prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and their meta-analyses. The book extensively assesses the effects of lifestyle, dietary patterns, and specific whole plant foods on the quality of aging; the impact of fiber-rich foods on colonic microbiotia and weight regulation, the effects of which influence the quality of aging; the effects of fiber-rich diets on the aging gastrointestinal tract; and the role of dietary patterns and specific whole plant foods on coronary heart disease, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. Figures are extensively used to highlight findings and tables summarizing food composition dietary patterns and whole plant foods. Tables summarizing meta-analyses and representative cohort studies and RCTs provide state-of-the-art coverage of the important effect of dietary patterns and whole plant foods on aging and cardiometabolic diseases. Dietary Patterns and Whole Plant Foods in Aging and Disease will serve as a very useful, state -of -the-art resource for dietitians, physicians, nurses, food industry scientists, researchers, naturopathic doctors, educators and their students interested in the role of dietary patterns and specific whole plant foods on aging and disease. ER -