Patrick Lowry & Kristina L. Penniston 
Nutrition Therapy for Urolithiasis [PDF ebook] 

Nutrition Therapy for Urolithiasis provides evidence based recommendations, established by a comprehensive, state of the art review of the available literature to help clinicians with nutritional counseling for dietary stone prevention. The text is edited by a Urologist and a Registered Dietician and individual chapters are written by experts in the three fields of Urology, Nutrition, and Nephrology. The book not only includes chapters that comprehensively cover the topic, but also includes practical appendices to guide the reader on: individual nutrient recommendations, examples of balanced dietary patterns (Mediterranean, DASH, U.S. Dietary Guidelines, Weight Watchers, diabetes meal planning, etc.), tables of foods rich in food that affect stone risk (calcium, phytate, sodium, etc); diet assessment tools; and guides to over-the-counter supplements that may be used in nutrition therapy for stone prevention: (calcium, probiotics, fish oil etc). This book provides a new resource to assist in the prevention of Urolithiasis and will be of great value to professionals in the fields of Urology, Nephrology, and Nutrition.

Daftar Isi

Part I. Elements of nutrition therapy.- 1. Definition and overview of nutrition therapy.- 2. Identifying patient candidates for nutrition therapy.- 3. Delivery and assessment of nutrition therapy to patients.- Part II. Rationale for providing nutrition therapy to patients with urolithiasis.- 4. Evidence-based and cost effective.- 5. Potentially improves overall health and patients’ QOL.- 6. Opportunity to dispel common and pervasive nutrition myths!.- Part III. Role of diet in urolithiasis.- 7. Digestive and absorptive physiology and mechanisms for urolithiasis.- 8. Concepts of nutrient balance/ imbalance.- 9. Diet assessment and identification of nutritional lithogenic risk factors.- Part IV. Nutrition therapy for specific lithogenic risk factors.- 10. Low urine volume.- 11. High urine calcium, high urine oxalate.- 12. Low urine citrate/ magnesium/ potassium.- 13. High urine uric acid/ acid urine.- 14. No apparent risk factors: what to do?.- Part V. Integrating nutritional stone prevention with therapy for other comorbidities.- 15. Overweight/ obesity: metabolic benefits for reduced stone risk.- 16. Diabetes: improved control may further reduce stone risk.- 17. Gastrointestinal malabsorptive disorders: improved control will address stone risk.- Part VI. Strategies for providing nutrition therapy and education to patients.- 18. Cultivating and sustaining urologist/nephrologist-RD collaboration.- 19. Strategies for counseling patients.- 20. Strategies for the private practice urologist/nephrologist.- 21. Current controversies in nutrition therapy for urolithiasis.- Part VII. APPENDICES.

Tentang Penulis

Patrick Lowry, MD




Urologist





Baylor Scott & White Health





Temple, TX





USA








Kristina Penniston, Ph D





Clinical Nutritionist





Department of Urology





University of Wisconsin





Madison, WI





USA