Introduction to Clinical Nutrition, Revised and Expanded

✍ Scribed by Vishwanath Sardesai

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 583
Edition: 2
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Profiles real clinical cases to facilitate the understanding and application of nutrition principles.
The Second Edition features new chapters and fully updated material on nutraceuticals, alternative medicine and nutritional supplements, nutritional epidemiology, and gene–nutrient interaction, and helps the reader understand why each nutrient is required for good health.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition......Page 4
Preface to the First Edition......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
Introduction: Fundamentals of Nutrition......Page 18
Digestion of Carbohydrates, Lipids, and Proteins......Page 34
Requirements for Energy, Carbohydrates, Fat, and Proteins......Page 50
Role of Essential Fatty Acids......Page 70
Eicosanoids......Page 88
Inorganic Elements (Minerals)......Page 102
Vitamins—An Overview......Page 156
Fat-Soluble Vitamins......Page 164
Water-Soluble Vitamins I......Page 198
Water-Soluble Vitamins II......Page 228
Vitamin-Like Substances......Page 258
Nutritional Aspects of Pregnancy and Lactation......Page 272
Nutrition and Development......Page 290
Nutrition and Aging......Page 312
Nutritional Assessment......Page 322
Obesity and Eating Disorders......Page 334
Cholesterol and Hyperlipidemia......Page 356
Osteoporosis......Page 372
Nutritional Aspects of Diabetes......Page 384
Nutritional Aspects of Genetic Disease......Page 398
Nutritional and Metabolic Effects of Alcohol......Page 418
Nutritional Epidemiology......Page 434
Dietary Fiber......Page 446
Antioxidants and Health......Page 458
Toxicants Occurring Naturally in Foods and Additives......Page 470
Vegetarianism and Other Popular Nutritional Practices......Page 484
Nutritional Aspects of Biotransformation......Page 498
Nutraceuticals......Page 512
Alternative Medicine: Dietary Supplements......Page 536
Index......Page 560

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Introduction to Clinical Nutrition 2nd e

📁 Introduction to Clinical Nutrition 2nd edition, Revised and Expanded

✍ Vishwanath Sardesai 📂 Library 📅 2003 🌐 English

Introduction to Clinical Nutrition 2nd e

📁 Introduction to Clinical Nutrition 2nd edition, Revised and Expanded

✍ Vishwanath Sardesai 📂 Library 📅 2003 🌐 English

Following up on the success of its highly-regarded predecessor, the Second Edition covers the most important topics pertinent to the world of clinical nutrition. It emphasizes the importance of nutrition to medicine and allied health sciences, and how the principles of good nutrition can enhance day

Introduction to Set Theory,Revised and E

📁 Introduction to Set Theory,Revised and Expanded

✍ Wendy Willard 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 CRC Press, Marcel Dekker 🌐 English

Thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and reorganized to serve as a primary text for mathematics courses. DLC: Set theory.

Introduction to Christian Worship Third

📁 Introduction to Christian Worship Third Edition: Revised and Expanded

✍ James F. White 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Abingdon Press 🌐 English

<span><i>Introduction to Christian Worship, Third Edition</i> traces the development of the major forms of Christian worship, and includes discussion of the newest service books of the principal churches of North America and the British Isles. This staple of liturgical history is used widely in Prot

Introduction to Set Theory, Third Editio

📁 Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded.

✍ Hrbacek, Karel; Jech, Thomas 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 CRC Press 🌐 English

Introduction to Set Theory, Third Editio

📁 Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded

✍ Hrbacek, Karel / Jech, Thomas 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 Marcel Dekker 🌐 English