Full Description
Nutrition plays a key role in prevention of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. Diet influences a broad spectrum of cardiometabolic risk factors, notably a cluster including excess adiposity, dyslipidemia, impaired glucose metabolism and high blood pressure. In the face of the rapidly increasing incidence of obesity and diabetes, maintaining cardiometabolic health through adoption of a healthy lifestyle is a top public health priority.
In this book, Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Health, international experts present state-of-the-art scholarly reviews of dietary and lifestyle effects on metabolic systems associated with cardiovascular health and disease. It covers a broad range of topics including biological and behavioral processes regulating food intake; lifestyle and surgical approaches to weight loss; nutritional considerations for optimal cardiometabolic health across the lifespan; the relationship of macronutrients, whole foods and dietary patterns to diabetes and cardiovascular disease; and diet as a modulator of gene expression, epigenetics and the gut microbiome and the relationship of these traits to disorders of metabolism. This book provides its readers with an authoritative view of the present state of knowledge of dietary effects on cardiometabolic health and will be of interest to nutrition and healthcare professionals alike.
Contents
Contents Preface Editors Contributors Section I?_Energy Balance, Adiposity, and Cardiometabolic Health Chapter 1 Regulation of Food Intake: The Gut-Brain Axis Surya Panicker Rajeev, Ian W. Seetho, and John P. H. Wilding Chapter 2 Overeating Behavior and Cardiometabolic Health: Mechanisms and Treatments Ashley E. Mason and Frederick M. Hecht Chapter 3 Energy Balance and Regulation of Body Weight: Are All Calories Equal? Kevin D. Hall Chapter 4 Diets for Weight Loss George A. Bray and Patty W. Siri-Tarino Chapter 5 Weight Loss by Surgical Intervention: Nutritional Considerations and Influence on Health Karim Kheniser and Sangeeta Kashyap Chapter 6 Physical Activity and Cardiometabolic Health Andrea M. Brennan and Robert Ross Chapter 7 Diet as a Potential Modulator of Body Fat Distribution Sofia Laforest, Genevive B. Marchand, and AndrŽ Tchernof Chapter 8 Nutritional Considerations for Cardiometabolic Health in Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Elizabeth Prout Parks, Jennifer Panganiban, Stephen R. Daniels, and Julie Brothers Chapter 9 Aging and Cardiovascular Disease: Lessons from Calorie Restriction Jasper Most and Leanne M. Redman Section II?Dietary Fats and Cardiometabolic Health Chapter 10 Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids: Roles in Cardiometabolic Disease William S. Harris Chapter 11 Evolving Role of Saturated Fatty Acids Patty W. Siri-Tarino and Ronald M. Krauss Chapter 12 Effects of Dietary Trans Fatty Acids on Cardiovascular Risk Ronald P. Mensink Section III?_Dietary Carbohydrates and Cardiometabo
