Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences

Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, Sherma Zibadi

Springer Science & Business Media, Aug 24, 2012 - Medical - 578 pages

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.

Contents

• An Overview: 5
• Genetics of Alcohol Metabolism: 15
• Laboratory Models Available to Study Alcohol and Nutrition: 33
• EthanolInduced Lipid Peroxidation and Apoptosis in Embryopathy 35: 51
• Effects on the MotherInfant Dyad: 77
• Nutrients and Foods as Modified by Alcohol: 85
• Nutrition and Health Inequalities: 97
• The Effect of Diet on Protein Modification by Ethanol Metabolites 111: 113
• Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Alcoholics: 131
• Nutrient Effects on Alcohol Metabolism: 145
• Dietary Zinc Supplementation and Prenatal Ethanol Exposure 155: 177
• Soy Products Affecting Alcohol Absorption and Metabolism: 203
• Oats Supplementation and AlcoholInduced Oxidative Tissue Damage: 217
• Alcohol in HIV and Possible Interactions with Antiretroviral Medications: 243
• The Psychological Synergistic Effects of Alcohol and Caffeine: 267
• Alcohol HIVAIDS and Liver Disease 287: 289
• Alcohol and Chronic Diseases: 309
• Alcohol and Dyslipidemia: 329
• Alcohol Consumption Lifestyle Factors and Type 2 Diabetes: 357
• Alcohol Overweight and Obesity: 371
• Alcohol and Anorectic and Bulimic Adolescents: 383
• Viral Infections and Cancer During Alcohol Use: 397
• Alcohol Diet and Their Interaction in Colorectal: 437
• Epidemiologic Evidence: 459
• Nutraceutical Potential of Indigenous Plant Foods and Herbs: 495
• Roles of Insulin Resistance: 521
• Nutrition in Alcoholic Steatohepatitis: 545
• About the Series Editor 575: 576

Bibliographic information

• Title: Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences; Nutrition and Health
• Editors: Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, Sherma Zibadi
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2012
• ISBN: 1627030476, 9781627030472
• Length: 578 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Clinical Medicine; Medical / Family & General Practice; Medical / Nutrition; Medical / Practice Management & Reimbursement; Science / Life Sciences / Biochemistry