Handbook of Nutrition and Food

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Beskrivning

The new edition of the Handbook of Nutrition and Food follows the format of the bestselling earlier editions, providing a reference guide for many of the issues on health and well being that are affected by nutrition. Completely revised, the third edition contains 20 new chapters, 50 percent new figures. A comprehensive resource, this book is a reference guide for many of the issues on health and well being that are affected by nutrition. Divided into five parts, the sections cover food, including its composition, constituents, labeling, and analysis; nutrition as a science, covering basic terminology, nutritional biochemistry, nutrition and genetics, food intake regulation, and micronutrients; nutrient needs throughout the human life cycle; assessment of nutrient intake adequacy; and clinical nutrition, from assessments to a wide variety of disease and health topics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-19
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781466505728
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Inc
Upplaga:3

Utforska kategorier

Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik inom Medicin
Kemi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Carolyn D. Berdanier, PhD, is professor emerita, nutrition and cell biology, University of Georgia in Athens. She earned her BS from the Pennsylvania State University and her MS and PhD from Rutgers University. She has had a long and productive career in nutrition. Her publication record includes 135 research publications in peer-reviewed journals, 20 books either authored or edited, 55 chapters in multi-authored books, 30 invited reviews, and numerous short reviews in Nutrition Reviews and papers in the lay nutrition magazine, Nutrition Today. She has received numerous awards for her scientific work. She is a member of the American Society of Nutrition Science, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, the American Physiology Society, and the American Diabetes Association.Johanna Dwyer, DSc, is professor of medicine (nutrition) and community health at the Tufts University Medical School and professor of nutrition at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. She is also a senior scientist at the Jean Mayer/USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. Her major research interest is in flavonoids, population-based nutrition surveys, and nutrition policy. Dr. Dwyer is the director of the Frances Stern Nutrition Center at Tufts Medical Center. From 2003 to 2011, Dr. Dwyer served part time as senior nutrition scientist, Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health. She now serves as a scientific consultant in the same capacity, where she is responsible for several large projects, including studies of dietary supplement motivation and use, development of an analytically substantiated dietary supplement database and other dietary supplement databases, development of research on the assessment of dietary supplement intake, and other topics. Dr. Dwyer received her DSc and MSc from the Harvard School of Public Health, an MS from the University of Wiscons

Recensioner i media

"… All chapters are written by experts in the field and include brief to extensive reference lists. This volume remains a very fine overview ofthe field of human nutrition. … Highly recommended"—N Duran, Texas A&M University in CHOICE Magazine, April 2014