Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Health

Nutrition plays a key role in prevention of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. Diet influences a broad spectrum of cardiometabolic risk factors, notably a cluster including excess adiposity, dyslipidemia, impaired glucose metabolism and high blood pressure. In the face of the rapidly increasing incidence of obesity and diabetes, maintaining cardiometabolic health through adoption of a healthy lifestyle is a top public health priority.

Key Features:

• Describes nutritional effects in segments that focus on energy balance, macronutrient quantity and quality, dietary food groups and patterns, and the relationship of these to cardiometabolic health
• Features information on novel approaches for promoting metabolic health including behavioral modification, intermittent fasting to achieve calorie restriction, the Paleolithic diet and bariatric surgery
• Discusses the relationship of early life nutrition, the gut microbiome and endocrine disruptors to chronic disease, and their modulation by diet
• Includes nutritional management strategies for individuals with childhood and adolescent obesity
• Provides chapter-specific concluding remarks that summarize the current state of knowledge and that are aimed at guiding clinicians and healthcare professionals to seek evidence-based practices for promotion of cardiometabolic health

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