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Advanced Nutrition - Macronutrients, Micronutrients, and Metabolism (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Advanced Nutrition - Macronutrients, Micronutrients, and Metabolism (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Like its predecessors, the new and updated edition of Advanced
Nutrition: Macronutrients, Micronutrients, and Metabolism is an
essential textbook for advanced undergraduate and first-year
graduate students studying human nutrition. This book draws on
inter-related sciences including biochemistry, genetics, and
physiology to provide a full understanding of nutrition science.
This third edition describes the chemistry, absorption, use and
excretion of each of the essential nutrients. There is
comprehensive coverage of nutrient-nutrient interactions and both
macro and micronutrients. The book places strong emphasis on how
nutrient-genetic interactions function with respect to disease
development. The new edition includes some of the most recent
descriptions of the roles nutrients play in the expression of
genetic traits for a variety of degenerative diseases. It includes
a new chapter explains the function of microorganisms in the
maintenance and development of chronic degenerative disease.
Features: Chapters address clinical conditions such as obesity,
starvation, hyperlipemia, renal disease and organ function.
Includes updated information on the body's microbiotica and the
daily nutrient needs of humans across the life cycle. Material
reveals the neurodegenerative response to dietary variables with
respect to the regulation of food intake. Chapter summaries
highlight key information and case studies challenge students to
integrate what they have learned to solve clinical cases.
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