Overview
- Expanded and updated new edition
- Evidence-based comprehensive text covering all aspects of nutrition and bone health
- Includes sections on lifestyle effects/supplements and nutrition related disorders and secondary osteoporosis
- Chapters written by internationally recognized bone and nutrition specialists
Part of the book series: Nutrition and Health (NH)
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basics of Nutrition and Bone Biology
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Nutrition and Bone: Effects of Life Stages and Race
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About this book
This newly revised edition contains updated versions of all of the topics that were in the first edition and has been substantially expanded with an additional 5 chapters. Each chapter includes information from the most up-to-date research on how nutritional factors can affect bone health, written with an evidence-based focus and complete with comprehensive references for each subject. Nutrition and Bone Health, second edition covers all aspects of nutrition and the skeleton, from the history and fundamentals, to the effects of macronutrients, minerals, vitamins, and supplements, and even covers the effects of lifestyle, the different life stages, and nutrition-related disorders and secondary osteoporosis. New chapters include HIV & AIDs and the skeleton, celiac disease and bone health, and nutrition and bone health in space.
Nutrition and Bone Health, second edition is a necessary resource for health care professionals, medical students, graduate students, dietitians, and nutritionists who are interested in how nutrition affects bone health during all stages of life.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael F. Holick
Department of Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics
Boston University Medical Center
Boston, MA
USA
Jeri W. Nieves
Helen Hayes Hospital and
Department of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Institute of Human Nutrition
Columbia University
New York, NY
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nutrition and Bone Health
Editors: Michael F. Holick, Jeri W. Nieves
Series Title: Nutrition and Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2001-3
Publisher: Humana New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2000-6Published: 14 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5066-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2001-3Published: 13 December 2014
Series ISSN: 2628-197X
Series E-ISSN: 2628-1961
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXIX, 718
Number of Illustrations: 138 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition, Orthopedics, Food Science