Optimizing Women's Health through Nutrition

Description:

It is no surprise that women and men experience biological and physiological differences fundamentally and throughout the lifecycle. What is surprising is that faced with such a self-evident truth, there should be so little consideration to date of how these differences affect susceptibility to disease and metabolic response to dietary treatment.

Table of Contents:

Section I: Introduction

Chapter

1. Need to Optimize the Health of Women

Chapter

2. Sex-Specific Biology of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Section II: Normal Nutrition

Chapter

3. Adolescence

Chapter

4. Premenopause

Chapter

5. Pregnancy and Lactation

Chapter

6. Menopause and Midlife

Section III: Nutrition in Chronic Disease and Various Conditions

Chapter

7. Obesity and Weight Management

Chapter

8. The Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Chapter

9. Cardiovascular Disease

Chapter

10. Breast and Ovarian Cancer

Chapter

11. Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis

Chapter

12. Rheumatoid Arthritis

Chapter

13. Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Chapter

14. Eye Health

Chapter

15. Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Forms of Dementia

Chapter

16. Depression and Psychiatric Disorders

Chapter

17. Eating Disorders

Chapter

18. Oral Health

Section IV: Conclusion

Chapter

19. Conclusion: What We Know, and Where Do We Go from Here

Index

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