Nutrition & HIV Rev: A New Model for Treatment - Softcover

Romeyn, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787939641 ISBN 13: 9780787939649

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Synopsis

Treating HIV with Nutrition Nutrition and HIV addresses the issues of nutrition and HIV from the perspective of the patient as well as the physician. Everyone who is interested in the problems of - and solutions to - nutritional therapy in HIV owes it to themselves to read this book. - Paul A. Volberding, M.D., director, Center for AIDS Research, San Francisco This reference book offers a sound nutritional model for sustaining and improving quality of life for HIV positive men and women. It outlines an easy-to-follow program for the prevention and treatment of weight loss - a common problem that if left untreated could lead to serious health decline or even death.

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Review:

"Nutrition and HIV addresses the issues of nutrition and HIV fromthe perspective of the patient as well as the physician. Everyonewho is interested in the problems of--and solutions to--nutritionaltherapy in HIV owes it to themselves to read this book." (Paul A.Volberding, M.D., director, Center for AIDS Research, SanFrancisco)

"Thoroughly researched, readable, and compelling. An important newresource for people with HIV and for those who care for them."(Ronald Baker, Ph.D., editor, BETA (Bulletin of ExperimentalTreatments for AIDS), San Francisco AIDS Foundation)

"So the bottom line is this: HIV is a disease of decreasingnutritional status; people die of wasting when their nutritionalstatus can no longer support life; we already have ways which candelay or limit that decline, and more are on the way. In the raceagainst HIV, there are new ways we can buy more time. And for someof us, the goal to 'Be Here for the Cure' may actually be withinour grasp.'' (Mary Romeyn, M.D.)

``As a nutritional consultant for our feeding programs, and nowwith this book, Mary Romeyn has taught us that our `Meals with Lovefor People with AIDS' constitutes important treatment for thisdisease.'' (Tom Nolan, executive director, Project Open Hand)

``Hunger hurts... with Dr. Romeyn's book a person living with HIVnow has the ammunition to fight this battle we call AIDS. Nutritionand HIV: A New Model for Treatment is a comprehensive guide to AIDSmanagement through nutrition.'' (Easter M. Armas-Mikulik, founderand executive director of A Loving Spoonful)

"This book can be a useful tool for HIV-infected patients and theirdietitians." (Journal of the American Dietetic Association)

About the Author:

MARY ROMEYN, M.D., is an internist on staff at St. Francis Memorial Hospital, San Francisco, with a private practice specializing in HIV and nutrition. She has served on the Food and Nutrition Subcommittee of the Board of Trustees of Project Open Hand, and sits on the Scientific Advisory Committees of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and HIV Care. She is a member of the volunteer clinical faculty of the University of California at San Francisco Medical School, and writes and lectures on nutritional aspects of HIV management.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0787939641
• ISBN 13: 9780787939649
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448