Western Diseases
Humana Press Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-89603-264-4 (ISBN)
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In Western Diseases Norman Temple and Denis Burkitt have convened a panel of world-renowned epidemiologists, nutritionists, and public health experts to explore the causes, prevention, and reversibility of developed Western societies' major diseases - cancer, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and obesity. Out of their findings they develop concrete policy proposals for the promotion of better public health that could save many lives, as well as reducing the great sums now spent for treatment of these largely preventable diseases. The distinguished writers here examine in detail the impact on Western health of our highly refined, meat-based, diet - rich in fat, cholesterol, and salt, but low in fiber - using, where necessary, cross-cultural data to enhance our understanding. They then explore the role of diet in chronic degenerative diseases and the effects of vitamins and minerals on cancer, hypertension, and other illnesses. And finally, they discuss the possibility of reversing certain of these diseases by dietary means. Western Diseases continues the ground-breaking work begun in Burkitt's earlier classics on the diseases of development.
The insights of this latest extension imply that many major changes in the way Western medicine is practiced are needed, and that these may have incalculable effects in reducing what are the preventable and reversible diseases linked to Western diets.
Part I. Diseases Characteristic of Modern Western Culture. The Emergence of a Concept. Western Diseases and What They Encompass. Part II. The Causes of Western Disease. Diet-Related Disease Patterns in South African Interethnic Populations: Epidemiological Perplexities and Future Prospects. Diet and Chronic Degenerative Diseases: A Summary of Results from an Ecologic Study in Rural China. The Dietary Causes of Degenerative Diseases: Nutrients vs Foods. Diet and Western Disease: Fat, Energy, and Cancer. Dietary Fiber. Vitamins and Minerals in Cancer, Hypertension, and Other Diseases. Part III. The Possibility of Disease Reversibility. Reversing Coronary Heart Disease. The Reversibility of Obesity, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, and Coronary Heart Disease. The Therapeutic and Preventive Potential of the Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle: Insights from Australian Aborigines. Part IV. Practical Means to Prevent Western Disease. Organized Medicine: An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure. Changes for Health. Part V. Medical Research. Medical Research: A Complex Problem. Western Disease: End of the Beginning. Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.6.1994 |
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| Zusatzinfo | biography |
| Verlagsort | Totowa, NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 229 x 152 mm |
| Gewicht | 940 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-89603-264-7 / 0896032647 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-89603-264-4 / 9780896032644 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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