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Optimizing women's health through nutrition

Title
  1. Optimizing women's health through nutrition / edited by Lilian U. Thompson, Wendy E. Ward.
Published by
  1. Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2008], ©2008.
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Additional authors
  1. Thompson, Lilian U.
  2. Ward, Wendy E.
Description
  1. xvii, 454 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  1. Women's Health
  2. Women > Diseases > Nutritional aspects
  3. Disease > etiology
  4. Diet Therapy
  5. Sex factors in disease
  6. Women > Nutrition
  7. Nutrition > Sex differences
  8. Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
  9. Sex Factors
Contents
  1. Ch. 1. Need to Optimize the Health of Women / Lilian U. Thompson and Wendy E. Ward -- Ch. 2. Sex-Specific Biology of the Gastrointestinal Tract / Marianne J. Legato -- Ch. 3. Adolescence / Nicole Larson, Jayne A. Fulkerson, Jamie Stang and Mary Story -- Ch. 4. Premenopause / Paula Skidmore and Aedin Cassidy -- Ch. 5. Pregnancy and Lactation / Lisa A. Houghton and Deborah L. O'Connor -- Ch. 6. Menopause and Midlife / Stacie E. Geller, Marci Goldstein Adams and Laura Studee -- Ch. 7. Obesity and Weight Management / Peter Clifton -- Ch. 8. The Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus / Janet A. Vogt and Thomas M. S. Wolever -- Ch. 9. Cardiovascular Disease / Alice H. Lichtenstein and Nirupa R. Matthan -- Ch. 10. Breast and Ovarian Cancer / Bette J. Caan and Cynthia A. Thomson -- Ch. 11. Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis / Wendy E. Ward -- Ch. 12. Rheumatoid Arthritis / Lisa K. Stamp and Leslie G. Cleland -- Ch. 13. Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Gerard E. Mullin and Linda A. Lee -- Ch. 14. Eye Health / Jennifer Evans -- Ch. 15. Alzheimer's Disease and Other Forms of Dementia / Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello, Sara Hutchison and Hannes B. Staehelin -- Ch. 16. Depression and Psychiatric Disorders / Christina P. C. Borba and David C. Henderson -- Ch. 17. Eating Disorders / Richard E. Kreipe and Sophie Bucher Delia Torre -- Ch. 18. Oral Health / Peter C. Fritz and Wendy E. Ward -- Ch. 19. Conclusion: What We Know, and Where Do We Go from Here / Lilian U. Thompson and Wendy E. Ward.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.