Recognizing the need for a comprehensive textbook on nutrition that addresses today's concerns with diet and the attainment of optimal functional health, this lucid text discusses the physiologic and metabolic interrelationships of all nutrients and their role in health maintenance as well as the prevention and treatment of various diseases. An ideal textbook for nutrition courses during the preclinical years! Complete with references, tables, equations, and drawings;facilitating a thorough understanding of the subject and providing a catalyst for further research;Introduction to Clinical Nutrition elaborates on the digestion and absorption of macronutrients (carbohydrates, fats, and proteins) and reveals the effects of their deficiency and excess on health elucidates the biochemistry of essential fatty acids and their nutritional role presents eicosanoids, their relation to disease, and the dietary manipulation of their formation details inorganic elements, vitamins, and vitamin-like substances in terms of chemistry, food sources, biochemical roles, physiological and metabolic interrelations, and effects of deficiency and excess describes special nutritional needs during pregnancy, lactation, and the life cycle in relation to physiologic changes specifies techniques to assess nutritional status and focuses on the interaction of nutrition with disease, such as obesity, hyperlipidemia, osteoporosis, diabetes, and genetic illnesses and more! In addition, this outstanding text features topics of special interest that include dietary fiber antioxidants popular dietary practices naturally occurring toxicants in foods additives biotransformation nutraceuticals Based on a highly successful course, this unique textbook is excellent for graduate and medical school students in nutrition, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, and related fields as well as nutritionists, dietitians, public health and allied health professionals, biochemists, and pharmacists.
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