Scientific Evidence for Musculoskeletal Bariatric and Sports Nutrition provides clinicians with an evidence-based integration of nutrition into medical treatment.

Features:

• Delineates how strategic nutrition can create an environment that builds muscle, metabolizes fat, strengthens bone, and repairs cartilage
• Applies recent technologic advances in body composition, nutrigenomics, and the fetal environment to clinical assessment of musculoskeletal health
• Reviews clinically-relevantresearch on fats, carbohydrates, proteins, antioxidants, magnesium, vitamin D, water, and chromium
• Explains how neurotransmitters, gut peptides, and hormones including testosterone, estrogen and progesterone controlled food intake and regulate body mass
• Presents laboratory tests and clinical assessments of minerals, vitamins, toxicant burdens, gastrointestinal health, global cell-membrane permeability and body composition
• Explores how optimizing nutrient stores can enhance performance and preserve function during surgery, sports, and challenging environments

Contents

Frontiers and Technologic Advances

• Body Composition: Quantifying the Musculoskeletal System
• Nutrigenomics: Strategic Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders of Aging
• Early Environments: Fetal and Infant Nutrition

Key Nutrients

• Fat
• Carbohydrate
• Protein
• Antioxidants
• Water: A Driving Force in the Musculoskeletal System
• Magnesium
• Vitamin D
• Chromium: Roles in the Regulation of Lean Body Mass and Body Weight

Fat Tissue

• Energy Balance
• Neuroendocrine Regulation of Appetite
• Estrogen's Role in the Regulation of Appetite and Body Fat
• Childhood Obesity
• Bariatric Surgery: More Effective with Nutrition
• Malnutrition: Applying the Physiology of Food Restriction to Clinical Practice

Muscle Tissue

• Muscle Atrophy
• Muscle Strain
• Muscle Hypertrophy

Soft Tissue

• Osteoarthritis
• Fibromyalgia
• Gout
• Oral Markers of Tissue Health

Bone

• Bone Nutrition
• Osteoporosis
• Fractures

Physical Stress

• Preparing for Orthopedic Surgery
• Xenobiotics: Managing Toxic Metals, Biocides, Hormone Mimics, Solvents and Chemical Disruptors
• Ergogenics: Maintaining Performance during Physical Stress
• Terrestrial Extremes: Nutritional Considerations for High Altitude and Cold and Hot Climates

Index

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