Nutrition for Brain Health: Fighting Dementia, Second Edition
About this ebook
Sections new to this edition discuss a broad range of lifestyle choices that can influence cognitive function, including exercise, proper nutrition, sleep and stress reduction, and staying mentally and socially active. Checklists include Cleveland Clinic pillars of brain health, Meeting health goals, and Brain health dos and don’ts.
Brain-healthy diets are also discussed, including the Mediterranean diet, DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), and MIND, which combines the Mediterranean diet and DASH. Information is specifically focused on food and drink choices that promote healthy cognitive function. Checklists include Popular diets, Common diet goals, Potential barriers to starting a successful diet, Signs of fad diets, and MIND diet facts.
If you or your loved one is at risk for developing dementia, following the guidelines presented in this book can help you maintain your brain health and fight the onset of dementia. If you or your loved one has already been diagnosed with dementia, this book will provide insights into nutritional changes that may slow the progression of the disease. It also presents tips for helping your loved one with severe dementia maintain adequate nutrition when eating becomes difficult.
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About the author
LLaura Town is an experienced author and editor who has contributed to many books for the academic, professional, and lay populations. Laura has written on a variety of topics of special interest to the aging population. She has expertise in the field of finance, and she has contributed to several online nursing courses and texts. Her work has been published by John Wiley and Sons and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and she has also written for the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA). As an editor, Laura has worked with Pearson Education, Prentice Hall, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, John Wiley and Sons, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Laura is the founder and president of WilliamsTown Communications, a company that creates educational courses and texts for publishers, universities, and non-profits. She is also the past president of the Indiana chapter of AMWA.
Karen (Kassel) Hoffman received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neurosciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, NE, where she was the recipient of an American Heart Association fellowship and several regional and national awards for her research on G protein-coupled receptor signaling in airways. She then pursued post-doctoral research projects at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the University of Kansas Medical Center, again receiving fellowships from the PhRMA Foundation and the American Heart Association, respectively. She has published research in the American Journal of Pathology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. In 2012, Karen joined the editorial staff at WilliamsTown Communications, an editing firm that specializes in educational products for undergraduate- and graduate-level students. At WTC, Karen specializes in producing educational products related to the sciences and healthcare. In addition, Karen is board-certified for editing life sciences (BELS-certified).
