Full Description
Nutrition and Metabolism Nutrition and Metabolism
In this second edition of the second title in the acclaimed Nutrition Society Textbook Series, Nutrition and Metabolism has been revised and updated to meet the needs of the contemporary student.
Ground-breaking in scope and approach, this title:
Provide students with the required scientific basics of nutrition in the context of a systems and health approach
Enable teachers and students to explore the core principles of nutrition, to apply these throughout their training, and to foster critical thinking at all times
Is fully peer-reviewed, to ensure completeness and clarity of content, as well as to ensure that each book takes a global perspective
Nutrition and Metabolism is an essential purchase for students of nutrition and dietetics, and also for those students who major in other subjects that have a nutrition component, such as food science, medicine, pharmacy and nursing. Professionals in nutrition, dietetics, food science, medicine, health sciences and many related areas will also find much of great value within its pages.
Other books in the Nutrition Society Textbook Series
Introduction to Human Nutrition
ISBN 9781405168076
Clinical Nutrition
ISBN 9780632056262 Public Health Nutrition
ISBN 9780632056279
For further information, companion material for use with these textbooks, and full details of how to purchase them, visit: www.wiley.com/go/nutritionsociety
Contents
Contributors vii
Series Foreword ix
Preface x
First Edition Acknowledgments xi
Dedication xiii
1 Core Concepts of Nutrition 1
Ian A Macdonald and Michael J Gibney
2 Molecular Aspects of Nutrition 7
Helen M Roche, Herman E Popeijus and Ronald P Mensink
3 Integration of Metabolism 1: Energy 35
Xavier M Leverve
4 Integration of Metabolism 2: Macronutrients 49
Keith N Frayn and Abayomi O Akanji
5 Integration of Metabolism 3: Protein and Amino Acids 72
Margaret E Brosnan, John T Brosnan and Vernon R Young
With grateful appreciation to the outstanding work of Dr Vernon Young formally of MIT, USA (1937-2004)
6 Pregnancy and Lactation 102
Joop MA van Raaij and Lisette CPGM de Groot
7 Growth and Ageing 119
Mark L Wahlqvist and Prasong Tienboon
8 Nutrition and the Brain 155
John D Fernstrom and Madelyn H Fernstrom
9 The Sensory Systems and Food Palatability 184
Conor M Delahunty
10 The Gastrointestinal Tract 205
Mariano Mañas, Emilio Martínez de Victoria, Angel Gil, María D Yago and John C Mathers
11 The Cardiovascular System 247
Gabriele Riccardi, Angela A Rivellese and Christine M Williams
12 The Skeletal System 272
John M Pettifor, Ann Prentice, Kate Ward and Peter Cleaton-Jones
13 The Immune and Inflammatory Systems 312
Parveen Yaqoob and Philip C Calder
Additional resources are published on the book's website: www.wiley.com/go/nutmet
14 Phytochemicals 339
Aedín Cassidy and Colin D Kay
15 The Control of Food Intake 353
Adam Drewnowski and France Bellisle
16 Overnutrition 360
Linda Bandini, Albert Flynn and Renee Scampini
17 Undernutrition 378
Paul Kelly
18 Exercise Performance 387
Asker E Jeukendrup and Louise M Burke
Index 418
