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Human nutrition : a health perspective / Mary E. Barasi ; illustrations by Megan Morris.
Holman Biotech Commons QP141 .B262 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barasi, Mary E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nutrition.
- Nutrition--Requirements.
- Nutrition counseling--Great Britain.
- Nutrition counseling.
- Nutritional Requirements.
- Great Britain.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nutrition.
- Nutritional Requirements.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Arnold ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Human Nutrition: A health perspective provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic principles of nutrition. Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition discusses the application of nutrition in the protection of health, and presents up-to-date scientific information in an accessible and reader-friendly format. The book focuses on issues related to major diseases in the West, such as coronary heart disease, cancer and diabetes, while discussing methods of studying nutrition and the essential principles of diet structure. All chapters are fully updated with extensive additional material, including cancer, coronary heart disease, energy balance, adipose tissue, folate, osteoporosis, nutrition policy and fluids. A new chapter on the concept of optimizing nutrition is included, together with a discussion of nutritional policy and related health promotion issues. Human Nutrition: A health perspective is essential reading for all students of Nutrition, Nutrition and dietetics, and Sports nutrition, in addition to health care professionals undertaking nutrition modules at undergraduate level and as part of postgraduate training.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Study of Nutrition and Food Habits 1
- Chapter 2 What are the influences on eating habits? 18
- Chapter 3 Basics of a healthy diet 36
- Part 2 The Nutrients in Food and Their Role in Health 55
- Chapter 4 Proteins 57
- Chapter 5 Fats 75
- Chapter 6 Carbohydrates 99
- Chapter 7 Energy needs 123
- Chapter 8 Energy balance 137
- Chapter 9 Vitamins 161
- Chapter 10 Minerals, electrolytes and fluid 194
- Part 3 The Application of Nutritional Knowledge 229
- Chapter 11 Pregnancy and lactation 231
- Chapter 12 Infants, children and adolescents 251
- Chapter 13 Adults and the elderly population 279
- Chapter 14 Diet and coronary heart disease 304
- Chapter 15 Diet and cancer 324
- Chapter 16 Challenges to nutritional status 338
- Chapter 17 Optimizing nutrition 364
- Chapter 18 Public health nutrition and health promotion 380.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis B. Flexner Medical Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0340810254
- OCLC:
- 51964232
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