(Ebook) Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related Healthcare Professions by Ted Wilson (Editor), Norman J. Temple (Editor), George A. Bray (Editor) ISBN 9783030825140, 3030825140

(Ebook) Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related Healthcare Professions by Ted Wilson (Editor), Norman J. Temple (Editor), George A. Bray (Editor) ISBN 9783030825140, 3030825140

As gatekeepers to the nutritional health of their patients, it is important that healthcare professionalshave access to up-to-date nutrition resources – such as this handbook – as well as the nutritionexpertise of registered dietitians. Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related Healthcare Professionalsendeavors to address the needs of those who would most benefit from up-to-date information onrecent advances in the field of nutrition. Accordingly, our book contains chapters by experts in adiverse range of nutritional areas. Our aim is to present a succinct overview of recent thinking anddiscoveries that have the greatest capacity to aid physicians and other healthcare professionals inimproving the nutritional health of their clients.Some readers may disagree with particular opinions presented by the authors, but in nutrition differencesof opinion are often unavoidable because nutrition is an ever-changing science that lives andbreathes debate and controversy. Readers are also reminded that nutrition is a fast evolving science.Many ideas regarding nutrition that are widely accepted today may be discredited in coming years.The following two quotes illustrate our changing understanding of what constitutes nutritional andmedical wisdom.The role of nutrition for creating optimal health has remained well known for millennia. An ancientChinese proverb says: “He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skills of the physician”and the Greek physician Hippocrates noted: “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food”.If we had the wisdom to know “what” to eat.