Western Diseases

Their Dietary Prevention and Reversibility

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Sir Richard Doll, FRS, FRCP ICRF Cancer Research Studies Unit Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK The twentieth century has seen few changes more remarkable than the improvement in health that has occurred nearly everywhere, most spectacularly in the economically developed countries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-11-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt:689 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:472
Förlag:Humana Press Inc.
ISBN:9781468481389

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Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik inom Medicin

Recensioner i media

...highly readable and even entertaining...provide(s) much useful and insightful information on the role of diet in human health and disease. - New England Journal of Medicine

Innehållsförteckning

I. Diseases Characteristic of Modern Western Culture.- The Emergence of a Concept.- Western Diseases and What They Encompass.- II. The Causes of Western Disease.- Diet-Related Disease Patterns in South African Interethnic Populations: Epidemiological Perplexities and Future Prospects.- Diet and Chronic Degenerative Diseases: A Summary of Results from an Ecologic Study in Rural China.- The Dietary Causes of Degenerative Diseases: Nutrients us Foods.- Diet and Western Disease: Fat, Energy, and Cancer.- Dietary Fiber.- Vitamins and Minerals in Cancer, Hypertension, and Other Diseases.- III. The Possibility of Disease Reversibility.- Reversing Coronary Heart Disease.- The Reversibility of Obesity, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, and Coronary Heart Disease.- The Therapeutic and Preventive Potential of the Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle: Insights from Australian Aborigines.- IV. Practical Means to Prevent Western Disease.- Organized Medicine: An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure.- Changes for Health.- V. Medical Research.- Medical Research: A Complex Problem.- Western Disease: End of the Beginning.