Author: Pietro VajroPublisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3038429236
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Nutrition and Liver Disease" that was published in Nutrients
The Evolving Landscape of Liver Cirrhosis Management
Author: Hitoshi YoshijiPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811379793
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book comprehensively covers the latest developments in the diagnosis and treatment of liver cirrhosis, including molecular mechanisms and therapeutic strategies. It elaborates on and explores the relation between chronic liver disease (CLD) and its causes, including viral hepatitis, steatohepatitis, autoimmune liver diseases and/or inherited liver diseases, and sustained liver injury. Furthermore, it discusses various complications such as hepatic encephalopathy, ascites, sarcopenia, esophagogastric varices, muscle cramps and pruritus, and the fact that it frequently leads to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. CLD is becoming a growing issue with substantial effects on public health, and Evolving Landscape in Management of Liver Cirrhosis provides scholars in gastroenterology and hepatology with invaluable insights. At the same time, it is a valuable resource for clinicians specializing in gastroenterology and hepatology as well as for researchers who are curious about new research on liver disease.
Dietary Interventions in Liver Disease
Author: Ronald Ross WatsonPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 012814467X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Dietary Interventions in Liver Disease: Foods, Nutrients, and Dietary Supplements provides valuable insights into the agents that affect metabolism and other health-related conditions in the liver. It provides nutritional treatment options for those suffering from liver disease. Information is presented on a variety of foods, including herbs, fruits, soy and olive oil, thus illustrating that variations in intake can change antioxidant and disease preventing non-nutrients that affect liver health and/or disease promotion. This book is a valuable resource for biomedical researchers who focus on identifying the causes of liver diseases and food scientists targeting health-related product development. Provides information on agents that affect metabolism and other health-related conditions in the liver Explores the impact of composition, including differences based on country of origin and processing techniques Addresses the most positive results from dietary interventions using bioactive foods to impact liver disease, including reduction of inflammation and improved function
Chronic Liver Failure
Author: Pere GinèsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1607618664
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
Chronic liver failure is a frequent condition in clinical practice that encompasses all manifestations of patients with end-stage liver diseases. Chronic liver failure is a multiorgan syndrome that affects the liver, kidneys, brain, heart, lungs, adrenal glands, and vascular, coagulation, and immune systems. Chronic Liver Failure: Mechanisms and Management covers for the first time all aspects of chronic liver failure in a single book, from pathogenesis to current management. Each chapter is written by a worldwide known expert in their area and all provide the latest state-of-the-art knowledge. This volume is specifically designed to provide answers to clinical questions to all doctors dealing with patients with liver diseases, not only clinical gastroenterologists and hepatologists, but also to internists, nephrologists, intensive care physicians, and transplant surgeons.
The Liver Healing Diet
Author: Michelle LaiPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1612434738
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
The first book to provide you with a detailed program for reversing liver damage through optimal nutrition—from two of the country’s top liver specialists. The only organ in your body that regenerates itself is the liver. And now, you can make it happen. With a complete program to rejuvenate your liver through optimal nutrition and routine exercise, The Liver Healing Diet shows you how to: Improve liver function Beat fatty liver disease Detoxify the liver Boost all-around health Nourish the body with delicious recipes The Liver Healing Diet teaches you basic liver facts, how to talk to your doctor about liver disease and what steps you need to reverse years of abuse. With your newly repaired liver you’ll feel better, have more energy and live a healthy lifestyle.
Nutrition, Diet Therapy, and the Liver
Author: Victor R. PreedyPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420085506
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Well-illustrated throughout and with in-depth analyses, Nutrition, Diet Therapy, and the Liver provides a holistic understanding of the causative elements that precipitate liver disease and the nutritional factors and regimens that reverse deteriorating hepatic function. This up-to-date resource also incorporates emerging fields of science and sign
Pediatric Nutrition in Practice
Author: B. KoletzkoPublisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 3318026913
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
There is no other time in life when the provision of adequate and balanced nutrition is of greater importance than during infancy and childhood. During this dynamic phase characterized by rapid growth, development and developmental plasticity, a sufficient amount and appropriate composition of nutrients both in health and disease are of key importance for growth, functional outcomes such as cognition and immune response, and the metabolic programming of long-term health and well-being. This compact reference text provides concise information to readers who seek quick guidance on practical issues in the nutrition of infants, children and adolescents. After the success of the first edition, which sold more than 50'000 copies in several languages, the editors prepared this thoroughly revised and updated second edition which focuses again on nutritional challenges in both affluent and poor populations around the world. Serving as a practical reference guide, this book will contribute to further improving the quality of feeding of healthy infants and children, as well as enhancing the standards of nutritional care in sick children.
Battle Against Liver Cirrhosis
Author: Susan BrookePublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781704571898
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
THE FIRST BOOK TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A DETAILED PROGRAM FOR REVERSING LIVER DAMAGE THROUGH OPTIMAL NUTRITION. The main organ in your body that recovers itself is the liver. Furthermore, presently, you can get it going. With a total program to restore your liver through ideal nourishment and routine exercise, The Liver Healing Diet tells you the best way to: *Improve liver capacity *Beat greasy liver illness *Detoxify the liver *Boost all-around wellbeing *Nourish the body with heavenly plans The Liver Healing Diet shows you fundamental liver realities, how to converse with your primary care physician about liver illness and what steps you have to switch long stretches of misuse. With your recently fixed liver you'll feel much improved, have more vitality and live a solid lifestyle. Normally, you would get another liver at regular intervals. That is the means by which quick a liver can recover. However, because of numerous components like handled nourishment, drugs, liquor and so forth, you lose the helpful organisms liable for providing supplements for recovery of liver cells. In liver cirrhosis pathology, the initiation of hepatic satellite cells is an urgent occasion in fibrosis. This is a verifiable truth and numerous ongoing examination works set up some strong herb's capacities to constrict the hepatic satellite cell actuation. This book offers you a bit by bit old strategy to fix greasy liver and propelled liver maladies with its significance in restoring a solid gut greenery displayed on an absolutely logical foundation.
Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Nutrition Desk Reference
Author: Gerard E. MullinPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439812640
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
While the gastrointestinal tract ingests, digests, and absorbs nutrients, the liver transforms nutrients, synthesizes plasma proteins, and detoxifies bacteria and toxins absorbed from the gut. It is therefore not surprising that gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases have a major impact on the nutritional state of the individual. Integrating nutrition and the gastrointestinal system, the Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Nutrition Desk Reference brings together experts in the field of nutrition, gastroenterology, and hepatology to offer dietary, nutritional, and natural therapies for gastrointestinal and hepatic ailments in order to improve overall health. Providing a review of the digestive tract, liver, and core concepts, this important reference presents the nutritional consequences and considerations of digestive disorders. Contributors examine the role of nutrition in gastrointestinal and liver disease, including alcoholic and nonalcoholic liver disease, viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, malabsorption, colorectal disease, transplantation, pancreatitis, and inflammatory bowel disease. Of special interest to the practitioner are chapters on food allergy and intolerance, the effects of medicinal plants, and the role of fiber in the gastrointestinal tract. The reference also addresses the challenges of managing nutritional issues for hospitalized patients and covers eating disorders and ethical issues. Other key topics include: Obesity Clinical applications of probiotics The impact of micronutrient deficiencies Genomic applications for gastrointestinal care Drug-drug and drug-nutrient interactions Guidelines for performing a nutrition assessment This comprehensive reference offers a toolbox of key concepts, charts, tables, algorithms, and practical therapeutic strategies for practitioners involved in gastrointestinal and hepatic nutrition care. Dr. Mullin maintains a website discussing the integration of both Eastern and Western (conventional) medicines to help patients overcome their digestive illnesses.
Healing Fatty Liver Disease
Author: Maitreyi Raman (Gastroenterologist)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921966453
Category : Cookbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Fatty liver disease is the most common type of liver disease seen in the world today.Some people with fatty liver disease simply have excess fat in the liver. Although not normal, it’s not serious if it doesn’t lead to inflammation or damage. However, once there’s a build-up of fat, the liver becomes vulnerable to injury. Others have what’s called non-alcoholic steatohepatisis (NASH). NASH can lead to permanent liver damage and cirrhosis.Both types of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are becoming more common. Up to 20% of adults have either fatty liver or NASH. The most common causes of fatty liver disease are obesity and diabetes mellitus.Written by experts and based on the most current information available, this indispensable guide is for anyone living with fatty liver disease. And diet plays a major role in managing the condition, so 100 specially selected recipes are also included.
