Human nutrition
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Elsevier Churchill Livingstone ,
2005
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| Edition: | 11th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Food and nutrient patterns
- Food and nutrient structure
- The Physiology of nutrient digestion and absorption
- Body size and composition
- Energy balance and body weight regulation
- Carbohydrate metabolism
- Fat metabolism
- Protein metabolism and requirements
- Alcohol metabolism: implications for nutrition and health
- Water-soluble vitamins
- Fat-soluble vitamins
- Minerals and trace elements
- Inter-micronutrient topics
- Infancy, childhood and adolescence
- Prepregnancy, pregnancy and lactation
- Ageing and older people
- Vegetarian diets
- Dietary considerations for sport and exercise
- Cardiovascular disease
- Obesity
- Diabetes mellitus
- Cancers
- Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
- Nutrition and the skeleton
- Dental disease
- Immune function, food allergies and food intolerance
- Eating disorders
- Deficiency diseases
- Diet and genotype interactions-nutritional genomics
- The Science of epidemiology
- Nutritional assessment methods
- Food supply, factors affecting production, trade and access
- Food nutrition policies and interventions