ABSTRACT

You can make a significant difference through your efforts in a world challenged by an international epidemic of chronic diseases fueled by rapidly spreading unbalanced nutrition and sedentary lifestyles. Primary care has typically presided over the relentless progress of common chronic diseases while providing palliative drugs that control blood sugar, blood pressure, and blood lipids. In this book, you will learn how to prescribe nutrition and lifestyle change for the prevention and palliation of such common diseases as type 2 diabetes mellitus, heart disease, and common forms of cancer.