Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences

by Ronald Ross Watson, Sherma Zibadi, Victor Preedy

Book Overview

Chronic alcohol use is associated with heart, liver, brain, and other organ pathology. Alcohol is a drug of abuse and a caloric food and it causes poor intake and absorption of nutrients, thus playing a major role in many aspects of clinical consequences. Alcohol use lowers consumption of fruit and vegetables, lowers tissue nutrients, and, in some cases, requires nutritional therapy by clinicians. Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493962833
• ISBN13: 9781493962839
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 578 Pages
• Weight: 2.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"