Nutrition remains the key to the successful treatment of diseases, in addition to the various evolved medical treatments across the world. The treatment outcome improves to a better extent with a degree of nourishment of the patients.
Therapeutic Nutrition in Ayurveda (TNA) categorizes diseases system-wise and discusses nutrition with references from Ayurveda classics as well as publications from indexed journals in today’s world.
This book emerges as a pilot project to discuss the clinical experiences directly and the concept of nutravigilance by experienced authors of respective specialties like hepatology, neurology, dermatology, ophthalmology, oncology, cardiology, gynecology, and so on. It broadly discusses diet and nutrition based on 12 different groups of diet in Ayurveda. Nutrition has been widely discussed for every disease dynamically in Ayurveda, with details of exclusion and inclusion of foods over a stipulated period or entire duration of treatment.
Key Features:
Presents system-wise and disease-wise therapeutic nutrition
Includes clinical experience of physicians on therapeutic nutrition
Contains interdisciplinary discussion on therapeutic nutrition with an integrated approach
The integration of traditional and conventional health systems, along with the multidisciplinary approach, is the emerging trend for inclusive health care in the coming decades. This book serves as a handy guide for health care professionals across the continents, providing interdisciplinary correlations on nutrition.
Author Biography:
Pankaj Wanjarkhedkar, MD (Ayurveda) heads Integrated Remedies, a pioneer institute offering Ayurveda Cancer Treatment with an integrative approach. Dr. Wanjarkhedkar has been in practice since 2007. His area of practice is primarily Cancer Care, Fertility Care, Metabolic diseases like obesity & diabetes. Along with Integrated Remedies, Dr. Pankaj is also associated with Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital (Pune), Sahyadri Hospital (Kothrud, Pune) and Vivekanand hospital & Cancer Centre (Latur). Dr. Pankaj has academic interest in Up to date Cancer Treatments; Evidence based Ayurveda Treatments & Research in Health Sciences. He has presented papers and delivered keynotes in seminars / workshops at number of national & international conferences in Health Universities / Hospitals of India, USA, Latin America.
Yashwant Pathak, PhD, is currently the associate dean for faculty affairs at the newly launched College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. Pathak earned his MS and PhD degrees in pharmaceutical technology from Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, and EMBA and MS degrees in conflict management from Sullivan University, Louisville, Kentucky. With extensive experience in academia and industry, Pathak has over 120 publications, research papers, abstracts, book chapters, and reviews to his credit. He has presented over 150 presentations, posters, and lectures worldwide in the field of pharmaceuticals, drug delivery systems, and other related topics.
