Features in depth coverage of:

• Food in the community
• Metabolism of nutrients by an individual, dictated by genetic makeup
• Measurement of an individual’s nutritional status
• Essential, non-essential and non-nutrients; their selection, ingestion, digestion,
• Absorption and metabolism
• Nutritional requirements in the normal individual and for specific diseases

Special features within the book to assist in learning include summaries, boxes and questions.

Principles of Human Nutrition - 2nd Edition is of great value as a reference for professional nutritionists and dietitians, food scientists and health professionals. It can also be used for those studying nutrition and dietetics.

Contents

1. Factors influencing the food that a community eats
   • History of food
   • Social, population and environmental influences on nutrition

2. Calculating how much food a community eats
   • The food chain
   • Nutritional requirements
   • Nutritional epidemiology

3. Factors influencing how an individual metabolises nutrients
   • Genetics

4. Calculating the nutritional status of an individual
   • Evaluation of dietary intake
   • Measurements of energy
   • Body composition

5. Nutrients and non-nutrients
   • Principles, amino acids and proteins
   • Lipids
   • Carbohydrates
   • Dietary fibre
   • Alcohol as a nutrient
   • Vitamins
   • Plant secondary metabolites and herbs
   • Water, electrolytes, minerals and trace elements
   • Non-nutritive components of food
   • Agricultural chemicals in the food chain
   • Drugs and nutrition

6. Eating, digestion and metabolism
   • Smell and taste
   • Intake and satiety
   • The gastrointestinal tract and food availability
   • Carbohydrate digestion and absorption
   • Protein absorption
   • Lipid absorption
   • Foetal and placental nutrition
   • Thermodynamics and metabolism
   • Mitochondria
   • Cytochrome P450
   • Free radicals
   • Carbohydrate metabolism
   • Lipid metabolism
   • Eicosanoids
   • Cholesterol and lipoproteins
   • Amino acid metabolism
   • Amino acid neurotransmitters
   • Organ metabolic fuel selection
   • Growth
   • Bone

7. Special nutritional requirements and conditions
   • Pregnancy, lactation, weaning
   • Childhood and youth; middle age and elderly
   • Sport
   • Nutrition in outer space
   • Dietary deficiency
   • Nutrition in the aetiology of disease

Index

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