1st Edition
Lifestyle Nutrition Eating for Good Health by Lowering the Risk of Chronic Diseases
What individuals consume in their diet have profound implications on their health. Despite overwhelming evidence that plant-based diets yield multiple health benefits, physicians often feel ill-prepared to discuss nutrition with their patients. Authored by renowned cardiologist Dr James Rippe, Lifestyle Nutrition: Eating for Good Health to Lower the Risk of Chronic Diseases provides physicians with an evidence-based introduction to nutrition science with a practical emphasis on how to apply this information to improve the health of their patients and enhance their own lives.
From nutrition and atherosclerosis to erectile dysfunction, chronic kidney disease to osteoporosis, this comprehensive guide covers a wide range of conditions influenced by diet. It delves into specialized areas such as nutrition for physically active people to the elderly, ensuring relevance for diverse patient populations. The reader will find detailed analysis of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025 and their applications, and strategies for adopting healthy plant-based diets, such as Mediterranean, DASH, and vegan.
Each chapter begins with key points and concludes with clinical applications, making it valuable to clinicians. As part of the esteemed Lifestyle Medicine series, this is an indispensable resource for any healthcare provider committed to enhancing patient care through informed dietary practices.
1. Lifestyle Nutrition for Physicians and Other Healthcare Workers
2. The Western Diet
3. Measuring Nutritional Status
4. Nutrition, Lifestyle Medicine and Chronic Disease
5. The Role of Physicians and other Healthcare Workers in Incorporating Healthy Nutrition and other Lifestyle Medicine Concepts
6. Nutrition and Health Equity
7. Hunger, Food Insecurity and Malnutrition
8. Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025
9. Nutrition and Inflammation
10. Nutrition and Metabolic Health
11. Nutrition and Atherosclerosis
12. Nutrition and Coronary Heart Disease
13. Nutrition and Hypertension
14. Nutrition and Stroke
15. Nutrition and Cancer
16. Nutrition, Cognition and Mental Health
17. Nutrition and Peripheral Artery Disease
18. Chronic Kidney Disease
19. Erectile Dysfunction
20. Lifestyle Nutrition for Pre-Diabetes
21. Nutrition for Overweight and Obesity
22. Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes
23. Osteoporosis
24. Nutrition and the Microbiome
25. Lifestyle Habits and Practices to Reduce Risk Factors for Heart Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Dementia and Cancer
26. Healthy Plant Based Diets: Mediterranean, AHA, DASH, US Healthy Eating Pattern, Vegetarian and Vegan
27. Nutrition for the Elderly
28. Childhood Nutrition
29. Nutrition for Women
30. Nutrition for Physically Active People and Athletes
31. Components of a Healthy Heart Diet
32. Genetics, Epigenetics and Precision Nutrition
33. Nutrition and Planetary Health
34. Public Policy Support for Healthy Eating
35. Eating for Nutrition for Good Health and to Protect the Planet
Biography
Dr. Rippe is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School with post graduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is currently the Founder and Director of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute and Professor of Medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School.
Over the past 30 years Dr. Rippe has established and run the largest research organization in the world exploring how daily habits and actions impact short and long-term health and quality of life. This organization, Rippe Lifestyle Institute (RLI), has published hundreds of papers that form the scientific basis for the fields of lifestyle medicine risk factor reduction and high performance health. Rippe Lifestyle Institute also conducts numerous studies every year on physical activity, nutrition and healthy weight management. Dr. Rippe has written over 500 academic papers and abstracts and written or edited 60 books including 33 for health care professionals and 27 for the general public.
A lifelong and avid athlete Dr. Rippe maintains his personal fitness with a regular walk, jog, swimming and weight training program. He holds a black belt in karate and is an avid windsurfer, skier and tennis player. He lives outside of Boston with his wife, television news anchor Stephanie Hart and their four children, Hart, Jaelin, Devon and Jamie.
