Chronic alcohol use is associated with heart, liver, brain, and other organ pathology. Alcohol is a drug of abuse and a caloric food and it causes poor intake and absorption of nutrients, thus playing a major role in many aspects of clinical consequences. Alcohol use lowers consumption of fruit and vegetables, lowers tissue nutrients, and, in some cases, requires nutritional therapy by clinicians. Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences will help the clinician define the causes and types of nutritional changes due to alcohol use and also explain how nutrition can be used to ameliorate its consequences. Chapters present the application of current nutritional knowledge by physicians and dietitians. Specific areas involving alcohol-related damage due to nutritional changes are reviewed, including heart disease, obesity, digestive tract cancers, lactation, brain function, and liver disease. In addition, alcohol’s effects on absorption of minerals and nutrients, a key role in causing damage are treated. The importance of diet in modifying alcohol and its metabolite damage is also explained.

Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences is essential reading for alcohol therapists and researchers as well as primary care physicians and dietitians and is an easy reference to help the clinician, student, and dietitian comprehend the complex changes caused by direct and indirect effects of ethanol at the cellular level via its nutritional modification.

Contents
Part I Overview and General Nutrition During Alcohol Use
1. Alcohol and Nutrition: An Overview
2. Genetics of Alcohol Metabolism
3. Laboratory Models Available to study Alcohol and Nutrition
4. Ethanol-Induced Lipid Peroxidation and Apoptosis in Embryopathy
5. Alcohol Use During lactation: Effects on the Mother- Infant Dyad

Part II Nutrients and Foods as Modified by Alcohol
6. Moderate Alcohol Administration: Oxidative Stress and Nutritional Status
7. Alcohol Use and Abuse: Effects on body weight and body composition
8. Alcohol: Nutrition and Health Inequalities
9. The Effect of Diet on Protein Modification by Ethanol Metabolites
10. Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Alcoholics
11. American Indians/Alaskan Natives and Alcohol: Biology, Nutrition, and Positive Programs

Part III Nutrient Effects on Alcohol Metabolism
12. Metabolism of Ethanol to Acetaldehyde in the Rat Mammary Tissue: Inhibitory Effects of Plant Polyphenols and Folic Acid
13. Dietary Zinc Supplementation and Prenatal Ethanol Exposure
14. Tocotrienol and Cognitive Dysfunction Induced by Alcohol
15. Soy Products Affecting Alcohol Absorption and Metabolism
16. Oats Supplementation and Alcohol-Induced Oxidative Tissue Damage
17. Fish Oil n-3 Fatty Acids to Prevent Hippocampus and Cognitive Dysfunction in Experimental Alcoholism
18. Alcohol in HIV and Possible Interactions with Antiretroviral Medications

Part IV Alcohol Interactions with Foods
19. Popular Energy Drinks and Alcohol
20. The Psychological Synergistic Effects of Alcohol and Caffeine
21. Alcohol and Smoking: A Correlation of Use in Youth?
22. Are There Physiological Correlations Between Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Adults?
23. Alcohol, HIV/AIDS, and Liver Disease

Part V Alcohol and Chronic Diseases
24. Nutritional Status, Socioeconomic Factors, Alcohol, and Cataracts
25. Alcohol Intake and High Blood Pressure
26. Alcohol and Dyslipidemia
27. Dietary Antioxidants in Chronic Alcoholic Pancreatitis
28. Alcohol Consumption, Lifestyle Factors, and Type 2 Diabetes
29. Alcohol, Overweight and Obesity
30. Nutrition: Alcohol and Anorectic and Bulimic Adolescents
31. Viral Infections and Cancer During Alcohol Use

Part VI Cancer as Modified and Induced by Alcohol
32. Ethanol and Hepatocarcinogenesis
33. Alcohol, Diet, and Their Interaction in Colorectal and Urinary Tract Tumors
34. Alcohol, Acetaldehyde, and Digestive Tract Cancer
35. Alcohol Intake and Esophageal Cancer: Epidemiologic Evidence

Part VII Alcohol and Liver Diseases
36. A Nutritional Approach to Prevent Alcoholic Liver Disease
37. Nutraceutical Potential of Indigenous Plant Foods and Herbs for Treatment of Alcohol-Related Liver Damage
38. Alcohol and Nutrition as Risk Factors for Chronic Liver Disease
39. Alcohol-Related Liver Disease: Roles of Insulin Resistance, Lipotoxic Ceramide Accumulation, and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress
40. Nutrition and Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: The Significance of Cholesterol
41. Dietary Fatty Acids and Alcoholic Liver Disease
42. Nutrition in Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
43. Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Vitamin A
Index