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Part I. Elements of nutrition therapy.- 1. Definition and overview of nutrition therapy.- 2. Identifying patient candidates for nutrition therapy.- 3. Delivery and assessment of nutrition therapy to patients.- Part II. Rationale for providing nutrition therapy to patients with urolithiasis.- 4. Evidence-based and cost effective.- 5. Potentially improves overall health and patients' QOL.- 6. Opportunity to dispel common and pervasive nutrition myths!.- Part III. Role of diet in urolithiasis.- 7. Digestive and absorptive physiology and mechanisms for urolithiasis.- 8. Concepts of nutrient balance/ imbalance.- 9. Diet assessment and identification of nutritional lithogenic risk factors.- Part IV. Nutrition therapy for specific lithogenic risk factors.- 10. Low urine volume.- 11. High urine calcium, high urine oxalate.- 12. Low urine citrate/ magnesium/ potassium.- 13. High urine uric acid/ acid urine.- 14. No apparent risk factors: what to do?.- Part V. Integrating nutritional stone prevention with therapy for other comorbidities.- 15. Overweight/ obesity:  metabolic benefits for reduced stone risk.- 16. Diabetes: improved control may further reduce stone risk.- 17. Gastrointestinal malabsorptive disorders: improved control will address stone risk.- Part VI. Strategies for providing nutrition therapy and education to patients.- 18. Cultivating and sustaining urologist/nephrologist-RD collaboration.- 19. Strategies for counseling patients.- 20. Strategies for the private practice urologist/nephrologist.- 21. Current controversies in nutrition therapy for urolithiasis.- Part VII. APPENDICES.

Patrick Lowry, MD<div><br></div><div>Urologist</div><div><br></div><div>Baylor Scott & White Health</div><div><br></div><div>Temple, TX</div><div><br></div><div>USA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kristina Penniston, PhD</div><div><br></div><div>Clinical Nutritionist</div><div><br></div><div>Department of Urology</div><div><br></div><div>University of Wisconsin</div><div><br></div><div>Madison, WI</div><div><br></div><div>USA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

Nutrition Therapy for Urolithiasis provides evidence based recommendations, established by a comprehensive, state of the art review of the available literature to help clinicians with nutritional counseling for dietary stone prevention. The text is edited by a Urologist and a Registered Dietician and individual chapters are written by experts in the three fields of Urology, Nutrition, and Nephrology. The book not only includes&nbsp;chapters that comprehensively cover the topic, but&nbsp;also includes practical appendices to guide the reader on:&nbsp; individual nutrient recommendations, examples of balanced dietary patterns (Mediterranean, DASH, U.S. Dietary Guidelines, Weight Watchers, diabetes meal planning, etc.), tables of foods rich in food that affect stone risk (calcium,&nbsp; phytate,&nbsp; sodium, etc); diet assessment tools; and guides to over-the-counter supplements that may be used in nutrition therapy for stone prevention: (calcium, probiotics, fish oil etc). This book provides a new resource to assist in the prevention of Urolithiasis and will be of great value to&nbsp;professionals in the fields of Urology, Nephrology, and Nutrition.

<p>Includes practical appendices to guide the reader</p><p>The first text to review the role of nutrition in the prevention of kidney stones</p><p>Chapters are written by experts in the three fields of Urology, Nutrition, and Nephrology</p><p>Provides evidence based recommendations</p><p>Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras</p>

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