Fundamentals of human nutrition: for students and practitioners in the health sciences
Geissler, Catherine
Powers, Hilary J.
Written by the editors of an established core textbook on human nutrition, this authoritative, up-to-date and concise text covers the key aspects of nutrition, including body composition and energy balance, food consumption, dietary components, the digestive tract, public health and professionalism and ethics in nutrition practice, diet and the lifecyle, diet and sport, diet and disease, and genetics. INDICE: Chapter 1 The Importance of Nutrition Chapter 2 Body Composition and Energy balanceChapter 3 Food consumptionChapter 4 Main dietary components Chapter 5 Minor dietary components Chapter 6 Diet and the lifecycle Chapter 7 Diet for sport and exercise Chapter 8 Diet and diseaseChapter 9 Nutrition and the hard tissues Chapter 10 Diet and the gastrointestinal tract Chapter 11 Dietand genotype interactions: nutritional genomicsChapter 12 Nutritional epidemiology and nutritional assessmentChapter 13 Public Health Nutrition Appendices:Glossary Dietary reference values International organisation publicationsSome useful websites for nutrition informationIndex
- ISBN: 978-0-443-06972-7
- Editorial: Churchill Livingstone
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 314
- Fecha Publicación: 17/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés