Nutritional Epidemiology

by Walter C. Willett

Book Overview

This book discusses the complex relationships between diet and major diseases of western civilization, such as cancer and atherosclerosis. It begins with an overview of research strategies in nutritional epidemiology, a relatively new discipline that combines the body of detailed knowledge gained by nutritionists in this century with methodologic approaches developed by epidemiologists to study determinants of diseases with multiple etiologies and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195045017
• ISBN13: 9780195045017
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.6"

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Nutrition in the relm of epidemiology

Amidst the fanciful claims for the health impact of diets and nutritional supplements some reason and science must prevail. In "Nutritional Epidemiology", Walter Willett has updated the substantial contribution to this task made by the 1st edition of his book. Topics covered include approaches to diet assessment in individuals and populations, pitfalls of diet questionaires and other measures of nutritional status and the evidence for a role of diet in a range of disease states. This comprehensive review of the art and science of dietary assessment is of great value to readers from a broad range of scientific and medical backgrounds.