Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nutrition and the primary care clinician / Darwin Deen and Katherine Margo -- Changing the office culture to make it work / Arlo Kahn and Jane White -- Methods of weight control / Cathy Nonas, Jennifer Williams, and Valentine J. Burroughs -- Growing up healthy / Susan Konek and Diane Barsky -- Feeding the mother-to-be / James M. Nicholson, Catherine Sullivan and Morghan B. Holt -- Staying healthy in later life / Connie Watkins Bales and Heidi K. White -- Dyslipidemia, hypertension and metabolic syndrome / Frances Burke and Philippe Szapary -- Diabetes, pre-diabetes and hypglycemia / Marion J. Franz and Richard Wender -- Gastrointestinal disorders / Marianne Aloupis and Thomas Faust -- Everything else / Marion Vetter and Katherine Chauncey -- Vitamins / Randee Silverman and Jeremy Brauer -- Minerals / Randee Silverman and Jeremy Brauer -- Dietary and nutritional supplements / Joel S. Edman and Elizabeth Horvitz -- Considering the alternatives / Benjamin Kligler, Joel S. Edman, and Mary Beth Augustine -- It's all about changing behaviors / Darwin Deen and Alice Fornari -- Community counts / Kathryn M. Kolasa -- Cultural considerations / Kim M. Gans and Charles B. Eaton.