Nutritional Strategies for the Diabetic and Prediabetic Patient is a comprehensive reference aimed at advancing physicians' knowledge of nutrition in relation to diabetes, allowing them to provide evidence-based recommendations for their diabetic patients.

Features:

• Discusses all aspects of nutrition in the adult diabetic and prediabetic patient including special topics such as dietary supplements, wound healing, and exercise
• Combines molecular and cellular mechanisms of disease and nutritional intervention with practical techniques for implementation in real clinical settings
• Includes numerous tables and figures
• Features evidence-based technical reviews of clinical literature

Contents

1. Foundations of Nutritional Medicine: From Basic Concepts to Genomic Medicine
2. Pathophysiology and Clinical Management of Diabetes and Prediabetes
3. Preventive Nutritional Strategies in Diabetic and Prediabetic Patients
4. Nutritional Strategies for Patients with Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome
5. Medical Nutrition Therapy for Patients with Type-2 Diabetes
6. Nutrition and Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus
7. Carbohydrate Counting: Description and Resources, Hope S. Warshaw
8. Continuous Insulin Infusion Therapy and Nutrition
9. Nutritional Strategies in Pregestational, Gestational, and Postpartum Diabetic Patients
10. Nutritional Strategies for the Patient with Diabetic Nephropathy
11. Nutrition Support and Hyperglycemia
12. Nutritional Strategies for Wound Healing in Diabetic Patients
13. Mitochondrial Function in Diabetes: Pathophysiology and Nutritional Therapeutics
14. The Rational Use of Dietary Supplements, Nutraceuticals, and Functional Foods for the Diabetic and Prediabetic Patient
15. Exercise, Nutrition, and Diabetes

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