Beschreibung
Comprehensive resource on all aspects of nutrition and metabolism; covering vitamin and mineral deficiencies, diseases, immunity, brain and bone health, and more.
Now in its third edition,Nutrition and Metabolism has been updated throughout to present readers with the core principles of nutrition in the context of a systems and health approach.
Written by a team of internationally renowned experts, the text includes information on:
Body composition, energy metabolism, proteins, amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, minerals, trace elements, food intake, and food compositionEnergy, macronutrients, pregnancy and lactation, growth and aging, brain nutrition, sensory systems and food palatability, the gastrointestinal system, and the cardiovascular systemSocietal food choices, over- and undernutrition, eating disorders, dieting, foetal programming, cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetesHow nutrition affects the liver, pancreas, kidney, lungs, heart and blood vessels, and how nutrition relates to the development of traumatic, infectious, and malignant diseases
Nutrition and Metabolism is an essential resource for students and practitioners of nutrition and dietetics, as well as students majoring in other subjects that have a nutrition component.
Autorenportrait
Professor Helen M. Roche, Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Professor Ian A. Macdonald, Professor Emeritus in Metabolic Physiology at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Professor Annemie M.W.J. Schols, Professor of Nutrition and Metabolism in Chronic Diseases at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
Professor Susan A. Lanham-New, Professor of Human Nutrition and Head of Department at the University of Surrey, UK.
Inhalt
Contributors vii
Series Foreword ix
Series Editors Preface x
About the Companion Website xii
1 Core Concepts of Nutrition 1Ian A. Macdonald and Annemie M.W.J. Schols
2 Molecular Aspects of Nutrition 7Herman E. Popeijus, Helen M. Roche, and Ronald P. Mensink
3 Integration of Metabolism 1: Energy 36Jennifer L. Miles-Chan
4 Integration of Metabolism 2: Macronutrients 51Abayomi O. Akanji and Keith N. Frayn
5 Integration of Metabolism 3: Protein and Amino Acids 76Emily J. Ferguson, Nicholas A. Burd, Tyler A. Churchward-Venne, and Chris McGlory
6 Pregnancy and Lactation 93Sharleen L. OReilly and Michelle K. McGuire
7 Growth and Ageing 110Mark L. Wahlqvist
8 Nutrition, the Brain and the Gut Microbiota 161Harriët Schellekens, Mara Loana Lesanu, and Siobhain M. OMahony
9 The Sensory Systems and Food Palatability 188Connor M. Delahunty and Remco C. Havermans
10 The Gastrointestinal Tract 209Mariano Mañas, Emilio Martínez de Victoria, Ángel Gil, María D. Yago, and John C. Mathers
11 The Cardiovascular System 255Wendy L. Hall, Jayne V. Woodside, and J.A. Lovegrove
12 The Skeletal System 276John M. Pettifor, Ann Prentice, Kate A. Ward, and Ansuyah Magan
13 The Immune and Inflammatory Systems 329Parveen Yaqoob and Philip C. Calder
14 Phytochemicals 356Gary Williamson and Jeremy P.E. Spencer
15 The Control of Food Intake 369Graham Finlayson and Mark Hopkins
16 Overnutrition 378Albert Flynn
17 Obesity 387Gijs H. Goossens and Ellen E. Blaak
18 Undernutrition 403Phoebe Hodges and Paul Kelly
19 Exercise Performance 414Asker E. Jeukendrup and Louise M. Burke
About the Editors 449
Index 452
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