"Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Abdominal Obesity"
focuses on the important roles that exercise, dietary changes, and
foods play in promoting as well as reducing visceral fat.
Nutritionists, dieticians, and healthcare providers seeking to
address the abdominal obesity epidemic will use this comprehensive
resource as a tool in their long-term goal of preventing chronic
diseases, especially heart, vascular, and diabetic diseases.
Experts from a broad range of disciplines are involved in
dealing with the consequences of excessive abdominal fat:
cardiology, diabetes research, studies of lipids, endocrinology and
metabolism, nutrition, obesity, and exercise physiology. They have
contributed chapters that define a range of dietary approaches to
reducing risk and associated chronic diseases. They begin by
defining visceral obesity and its major outcomes; they also discuss
the importance and the challenges of dietary approaches to reduce
abdominal obesity, as compared to clinical approaches, with major
costs and risks.
Offers detailed, well-documented reviews outlining the various
dietary approaches to visceral obesity with their benefits and
failuresIncludes chapters on types of foods, exercise, and
supplements in reducing obesity and its chronic clinical
companions, especially diabetes and cardiovascular diseaseHelps
nutritionists, dieticians, and healthcare providers approach
patients in making decision about nutritional therapies and
clinical treatments for abdominal obesity, from an evidence-based
perspective
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