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Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences

  • Defines the causes and types of nutritional changes due to alcohol use
  • Reviews specific areas involving alcohol-related damages due to nutritional changes
  • Desk reference for primary care physicians, dietitians, alcohol therapists and researchers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Nutrition and Health (NH)

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Table of contents (43 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Overview and General Nutrition During Alcohol Use

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Overview and General Nutrition during alcohol use

    1. Alcohol and Nutrition: An Overview

      • Francisco Santolaria, Emilio González-Reimers
      Pages 3-14
    2. Genetics of Alcohol Metabolism

      • Vijay A. Ramchandani
      Pages 15-25
    3. Laboratory Models Available to Study Alcohol and Nutrition

      • Nympha B. D’Souza EL-Guindy
      Pages 27-34
  4. Nutrients and Foods as Modified by Alcohol

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
  5. Nutrients and Foods as modified by alcohol

    1. Moderate Alcohol Administration: Oxidative Stress and Nutritional Status

      • Lorenzo Leggio, Anna Ferrulli, Giovanni Addolorato
      Pages 83-88
    2. Alcohol Use and Abuse: Effects on Body Weight and Body Composition

      • Stefan Gazdzinski, Timothy C. Durazzo
      Pages 89-96
    3. Alcohol: Nutrition and Health Inequalities

      • Adrian Bonner, Margherita Grotzkyj-Giorgi
      Pages 97-109
    4. Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Alcoholics

      • Alberto Fragasso
      Pages 131-134
    5. American Indians/Alaskan Natives and Alcohol: Biology, Nutrition, and Positive Programs

      • Felina M. Cordova, Michael H. Trujillo, Roger Dale Walker
      Pages 135-142
  6. Nutrient Effects on Alcohol Metabolism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
    2. Dietary Zinc Supplementation and Prenatal Ethanol Exposure

      • Peter Coyle, Brooke Summers-Pearce, Carina J. Cowley, Allan M. Rofe
      Pages 155-180
    3. Tocotrienol and Cognitive Dysfunction Induced by Alcohol

      • Kanwaljit Chopra, Vinod Tiwari
      Pages 181-202
    4. Soy Products Affecting Alcohol Absorption and Metabolism

      • Mitsuyoshi Kano, Norihiro Kubota
      Pages 203-214
    5. Oats Supplementation and Alcohol-Induced Oxidative Tissue Damage

      • Christopher B. Forsyth, Yueming Tang, Robin M. Voigt, Turan Rai, Ali Keshavarzian
      Pages 215-225

About this book

Chronic alcohol use is associated with heart, liver, brain, and other organ pathology.  Alcohol is a drug of abuse and a caloric food and it causes poor intake and absorption of nutrients, thus playing a major role in many aspects of clinical consequences. Alcohol use lowers consumption of fruit and vegetables, lowers tissue nutrients, and, in some cases, requires nutritional therapy by clinicians.  Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences will help the clinician define the causes and types of nutritional changes due to alcohol use and also explain how nutrition can be used to ameliorate its consequences. Chapters present the application of current nutritional knowledge by physicians and dietitians. Specific areas involving alcohol-related damage due to nutritional changes are reviewed, including heart disease, obesity, digestive tract cancers, lactation, brain function, and liver disease. In addition, alcohol’s effects on absorption of minerals and nutrients, a key role in causing damage are treated. The importance of diet in modifying alcohol and its metabolite damage is also explained.

            Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences is essential reading for alcohol therapists and researchers as well as primary care physicians and dietitians and is an easy reference to help the clinician, student, and dietitian comprehend the complex changes caused by direct and indirect effects of ethanol at the cellular level via its nutritional modification.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Arizona Health Science Center, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public, University of Arizona, TUCSON, USA

    Ronald Ross Watson

  • Dept. Nutrition & Dietetics, King's College, London, United Kingdom

    Victor R. Preedy

  • Division of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Sherma Zibadi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences

  • Editors: Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, Sherma Zibadi

  • Series Title: Nutrition and Health

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-047-2

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-046-5Published: 24 August 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6283-9Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-62703-047-2Published: 24 August 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2628-197X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2628-1961

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 578

  • Topics: Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition, Primary Care Medicine

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 249.99
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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