,HANDBOOK OF
NUTRITIONAL
DISORDERS
Jahangir Moini and Katia Ferdowsi
, Handbook of Nutritional Disorders
Handbook of Nutritional Disorders is a comprehensive handbook covering topics in nutrition, mal-
nutrition, and clinical disorders associated with nutrition, from deficiency to toxicity. It includes
information on carbohydrate, lipid, and protein metabolism disorders and vitamin and mineral
abnormalities. The book details various types of supplements, feeding methods, and therapies for
many specific patients. It aims to educate readers on ways to prevent disorders resulting from all
kinds of malnutrition and their potentially severe complications.
Features
• Strong focus on diabetes, featuring information on various forms of the disease and treat-
ment methods.
• Detailed discussion of lipids and related disorders – cardiovascular disease being the most
frequent cause of death – informing users on the prevention and treatment of hypertension,
myocardial infarction, and stroke.
• Contains information on selective nutritional disorders, including obesity, dehydration,
imbalances, malabsorption, alcoholism, neuropsychiatric disorders, eating disorders, can-
cer, and pollutant poisonings.
Written for researchers, academics, and students in healthcare and nutrition, this book educates
individuals on the prevention of disorders resulting from all types of malnutrition and their poten-
tially severe complications.
ALGr a wa n y
, Handbook of
Nutritional Disorders
Jahangir Moini, MD, MPH
Former Professor of Science and Health (retired)
Eastern Florida State College
Katia Ferdowsi, MD, MPH
Lecturer, Department of Health Sciences
University of Central Florida
NUTRITIONAL
DISORDERS
Jahangir Moini and Katia Ferdowsi
, Handbook of Nutritional Disorders
Handbook of Nutritional Disorders is a comprehensive handbook covering topics in nutrition, mal-
nutrition, and clinical disorders associated with nutrition, from deficiency to toxicity. It includes
information on carbohydrate, lipid, and protein metabolism disorders and vitamin and mineral
abnormalities. The book details various types of supplements, feeding methods, and therapies for
many specific patients. It aims to educate readers on ways to prevent disorders resulting from all
kinds of malnutrition and their potentially severe complications.
Features
• Strong focus on diabetes, featuring information on various forms of the disease and treat-
ment methods.
• Detailed discussion of lipids and related disorders – cardiovascular disease being the most
frequent cause of death – informing users on the prevention and treatment of hypertension,
myocardial infarction, and stroke.
• Contains information on selective nutritional disorders, including obesity, dehydration,
imbalances, malabsorption, alcoholism, neuropsychiatric disorders, eating disorders, can-
cer, and pollutant poisonings.
Written for researchers, academics, and students in healthcare and nutrition, this book educates
individuals on the prevention of disorders resulting from all types of malnutrition and their poten-
tially severe complications.
ALGr a wa n y
, Handbook of
Nutritional Disorders
Jahangir Moini, MD, MPH
Former Professor of Science and Health (retired)
Eastern Florida State College
Katia Ferdowsi, MD, MPH
Lecturer, Department of Health Sciences
University of Central Florida
