Molecular Nutrition and Genomics presents a vital portrait of the fundamental role that nutrition has played and continues to play in shaping who and what human beings are, where we evolved from, and where we might be headed as a species.

Key topics include:

• Bioinformatics and the -omics revolution
• Recent human evolution
• Molecular mechanisms of gene-nutrient interactions
• Role of nutrients and genomics in disease
• Evolution of micronutrient metabolism, protein structure, and human disease
• Nutrients and the human life cycle
• Mismatch of contemporary dietary patterns and our genetic makeup
• Laboratory tools for nutrigenomics and human evolutionary studies

Contents

1. Defining Important Concepts
2. Molecular Mechanisms of Genetic Variation Linked to Diet
3. Essential Nutrients and Genomic Integrity: Developmental and Degenerative Correlates
4. Nutrients and Cerebral Function in Human Evolution
5. The Evolution of Micronutrient Metabolism
6. Evolved Refinement of the Human Lifecycle Based on Nutritional Criteria
7. The Evolution of Human Disease
8. Contemporary Dietary Patterns that Work: The Mediterranean Diet
9. Some Non-Micronutrient Essential and Nonessential Nutrients with Molecular and Possible Evolutionary Impact
10. Natural Food Toxins and the Human Diet
11. Nutrigenomics
12. The Evolution of Protein Function
13. Leading Edge Laboratory Tools in Nutrigenomics and Human Evolutionary Studies

Index

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