Modern Dietary Fat Intakes
in Disease Promotion

divided into five sections including the section on the behavioral aspects of eating; a second
section on dietary fats; the third section examines the clinical relevance of fats and cardiovascular
disease. The fourth section contains novel chapters on the potential for contaminants in fats and
oils to increase risk of illnesses. The fifth section looks at dietary and pharmaceutical approaches

to modify fat-induced disease and ill-health. Each section contains chapters that address treat-
ment options as well as prevention strategies. This logical sequence of chapters provides the

latest information on the current standards of practice for clinicians, related health professionals

including the dietician, nurse, pharmacist, physical therapist, behaviorist, psychologist, and oth-
ers involved in the team effort required for successful treatment of lipid disorders, cardiac and

cerebrovascular diseases as well as conditions that adversely affect normal metabolic processes.
This comprehensive volume also has great value for academicians involved in the education of
graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, medical students and allied health professionals who
plan to interact with patients with lipid disorders as well as those who are overweight or obese.

Cutting edge discussions of the roles of growth factors, hormones, cellular and nuclear recep-
tors, adipose tissue, and all of the cells directly involved in fat metabolism are included in

well-organized chapters that put the molecular aspects into clinical perspective. Of great impor-
tance, the editor and authors have provided chapters that balance the most technical information

with discussions of its importance for clients and patients as well as graduate and medical
students, health professionals, and academicians.