Internet Guide to Medical Diets and Nutrition / Edition 1

by Lillian Brazin

Overview

Don't waste you time with health and diet Web sites that don’t work. The Internet provides unlimited resources that make it easy to learn about various diets, weight-loss programs, and weight-reduction procedures. But with so many sources, which ones can you trust for information that’s safe, accurate, and up-to-date? The Internet Guide to Medical Diets and Nutrition saves you time, trouble, and effort in your search for Web sites that offer the facts about diet programs and nutrition philosophies that meet your health, medical, or religious needs.

The Internet Guide to Medical Diets and Nutrition helps you filter out Web sites that offer little, if any, real help in maintaining special diets that address specific diseases (low protein, high calcium, low gluten, hypoallergenic, diabetes, cancer, anemia, etc.), religious or philosophical mandates (Hindu, kosher, vegan, Muslim, macrobiotic, etc.), or commercial regimens (Atkins™, Weight Watchers®, NutriSystem®, etc.), or provide answers to questions about bariatric surgery (gastric bypass, stomach stapling, etc.). This invaluable reference resource teaches you how locate Web sites recommended to you, how to evaluate the information you find there, how to research a particular diet or health concern, how to choose and use the right search engine, the significance of domains in Web addresses, and how to observe proper etiquette when participating in Internet discussion groups.

Topics examined in the Internet Guide to Medical Diets and Nutrition include:

• general diet and nutrition Web sites
  
• Web calculators (Body Mass Index, exercise, calories, weight-maintenance, healthy weight)
  
• the nutrient content of foods
  
• food labels
  
• non-surgical weight-loss Web sites
  
• caloric restrictions
  
• hypnosis
  
• weight-loss centers and workshops
  
• weight-loss surgery Web sites
  
• Web sites for specific medical conditions
  
• vegetarianism
  
• recipes
  
• online discussion groups
  
• and much more!

The Internet Guide to Medical Diets and Nutrition also includes a glossary of terms and screen captures of important Web sites. The book is a must-have as an everyday resource for consumers with diet and health interests and concerns, and as a reference tool for medical and public libraries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789023582
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/21/2006
Series:	Haworth Internet Medical Guides Series
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface, Chapter 1. Introduction, Chapter 2. Hunting for Information, Search Engines, Are You the Master of Your Domain?, Too Good to Be True: How to Pick the Best Web Sites, Chapter 3. The Internet or the World Wide Web: What’s the Difference?, Discussion Groups: Chat Rooms, Mailing Lists, and Newsgroups, Some Advice from Cyber-Aunt: Is Your Life an Open Book (or Internet Site)?, Practice Good Netiquette, Chapter 4. General Diet and Nutrition Web Sites, Chapter 5. Health Assessment Web Sites, Online Calculators and Assessment Tools, Understanding Food Labels, Chapter 6. Weight Loss (Nonsurgical) Web Sites, Chapter 7. Weight Loss (Bariatric) Surgery Web Sites, Chapter 8. Diet, Nutrition, and Recipe Web Sites for Medical Problems and Conditions, AIDS/HIV, Alzheimer’s Disease, Anemia, Arthritis, Atherosclerosis or High Cholesterol, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism, Cancer (Including Chemotherapy, Cancer Prevention, Postradiation Recovery), Celiac/Coeliac Disease, Nontropical Sprue, Gluten Intolerance, Gluten-Sensitive Enteropathy, Chewing/Swallowing Disorders, Colitis, Crohn’s Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Colostomy, Depression, Diabetes Mellitus, Digestive Diseases, Diverticulitis/Diverticulosis, Fibrocystic Breast Disease, Food Allergies, Gluten-Free Diet, Gout/Low-Purine Diet, Headache/Migraine Elimination Diet, Heart Disease/Congestive Heart Failure (Including Treatm

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Jean Liddell, MLS (Auburn University)
Description: This book contains numerous Internet sites dealing with diets and nutrition with descriptions of each in short paragraphs as well as some illustrations. The book is written in a clear and concise manner.
Purpose: The author does an excellent job of achieving her stated purpose of bringing together "the best Web sites covering these nutrition topics." She also accomplishes her secondary purpose, "to help the beginning Internet user learn how to find and evaluate."
Audience: This book is most useful for beginning nutrition or medical students and the general public. Although the author dedicates it "to clinical dietitians," most would either know many of these sites or how to find them before they graduate. Nutrition professors, graduate students, or upper level students do not need this book. The author is a well qualified librarian, but the stated audience would be better served had there been a dietitian coauthor.
Features: The author does a splendid job of identifying multiple Internet sites that address multiple purposes. Varied diet plans are covered, including specific illnesses, religious faiths, and specialty diets. The end of the book even includes fun nutrition facts. The book's best quality is that readers can easily and quickly scan it for specific information. As with all Internet site books, however, it is almost outdated by the time it gets to the library or bookstore. Internet subjects are best covered in journal or magazine articles since they move more rapidly to the consumer.
Assessment: This book is most useful for the general public, especially Americans who are constantly looking for quick access to a new and better diet. I would not recommend this book for a university/college library. In addition to the reasons I have already noted, I have had the book for less than three weeks and have handled it carefully, yet the binding is already separating. At $29.95, the hardcover is overpriced. The softcover, priced at $12.95, seems more reasonable.

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