Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Contributors xviii
6. Keynote Address
7. Dietary Guidelines and the Development of a European Policy 3
8. Diet and Cardiovascular Disease
9. Dietary and Hereditary Factors in Coronary Heart Disease 19
10. Coronary Heart Disease: Prevention and Treatment by Nutritional Change 33
11. Coronary Heart Disease Prevention Trials 73
12. A Public Health Program for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease 85
13. Diet and Selected Health Problems
14. Diet and Hypertension 93
15. Diet and Diabetes 103
16. Individual Susceptibility to Obesity in Response to Dietary Factors 121
17. Diet and Kidney Disease 130
18. Diet and Health Maintenance
19. The Role of Diet in the Maintenance of Health throughout Life 141
20. Nutritional Problems of the Elderly 155
21. Alcohol Use and Nutrition 176
22. Diet in Relation to Osteoporosis 188
23. Diet and Cancer
24. Mutagens and Carcinogens Formed during Cooking 207
25. Salt, Stomach Cancer, and Stroke 229
26. Epidemiology of Breast and Colon Cancer 243
27. Calories and Cancer 250
28. Dietary Guidelines
29. Development and Use of Dietary Guidelines for Whole Populations versus Populations at High Risk 259
30. Dietary Guidelines: Implications for Agriculture 268
31. Dietary Guidelines: Steps for the Food Industry 284
32. Dietary Guidelines: Steps for Dietitians/Public Health Nutritionists 287
33. Dietary Guidelines: Steps for Nutrition Educators 292
34. Nutrition, Diet, and Health: The Physician's Role 298
35. Dietary Guidelines: Steps by Government Agencies 303
36. Public Health and Mortality
37. The History of Mortality 309
38. Index 345