This textbook offers a concise, yet comprehensive account of human
nutrition, food and nutrition-related health problems, based on the
curricula of top universities around the globe. Nutrition is a
multidisciplinary science, and as such, the book discusses various
aspects of physiology, biochemistry, pathology, immunology,
medicine, food science, and other fields related to nutrition, it
focuses on the role of nutrition in the maintenance of health. The
various chapters explore highly relevant issues, such as,
addiction-related health problems, lifestyle-related disorders,
social health problems and poor-maintenance of food hygiene and
food safety. It also addresses the role of nutritional therapies
for mental disorders, and includes an integrated perspective on
cognition, oxidative stress and nutritional interventions in aging.
Other topics include, the role of gut microbiota on human health,
nutraceuticals as therapeutic agents and ketogenic diets. It also
highlights malnutrition (protein energy malnutrition, starvation,
malabsorption syndrome, eating disorders and overnutrition/obesity)
and adipose tissue as an active endocrine organ. Moreover, it
examines key concepts concerning the role of vitamins in the citric
acid cycle (gluconeogenesis, ketogenesis, oxidative deamination and
transamination) and precursors of coenzymes, as well as calorigenic
hormones, appetite-stimulating/appetite-inhibiting hormones,
anabolic and catabolic hormones affecting protein metabolism, and
lipogenetic/lipolytic hormones.
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