Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine
and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it touches and
shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for nutrients
determines whether wild animals thrive, how populations evolve and
decline, and how ecological communities are structured. "The Nature
of Nutrition" is the first book to address nutrition's enormously
complex role in biology, both at the level of individual organisms
and in their broader ecological interactions.
Stephen Simpson and David Raubenheimer provide a comprehensive
theoretical approach to the analysis of nutrition--the Geometric
Framework. They show how it can help us to understand the links
between nutrition and the biology of individual animals, including
the physiological mechanisms that determine the nutritional
interactions of the animal with its environment, and the
consequences of these interactions in terms of health, immune
responses, and lifespan. Simpson and Raubenheimer explain how these
effects translate into the collective behavior of groups and
societies, and in turn influence food webs and the structure of
ecosystems. Then they demonstrate how the Geometric Framework can
be used to tackle issues in applied nutrition, such as the problem
of optimizing diets for livestock and endangered species, and how
it can also help to address the epidemic of human obesity and
metabolic disease
Drawing on a wealth of examples from slime molds to humans,
"The Nature of Nutrition" has important applications in ecology,
evolution, and physiology, and offers promising solutions for human
health, conservation, and agriculture.
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