Profiles real clinical cases to facilitate the understanding and application of nutrition principles.
The Second Edition features new chapters and fully updated material on nutraceuticals, alternative medicine and nutritional supplements, nutritional epidemiology, and gene–nutrient interaction, and helps the reader understand why each nutrient is required for good health.
Author(s): Vishwanath Sardesai
Edition: 2
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 583
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 4
Preface to the First Edition......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
Introduction: Fundamentals of Nutrition......Page 18
Digestion of Carbohydrates, Lipids, and Proteins......Page 34
Requirements for Energy, Carbohydrates, Fat, and Proteins......Page 50
Role of Essential Fatty Acids......Page 70
Eicosanoids......Page 88
Inorganic Elements (Minerals)......Page 102
Vitamins—An Overview......Page 156
Fat-Soluble Vitamins......Page 164
Water-Soluble Vitamins I......Page 198
Water-Soluble Vitamins II......Page 228
Vitamin-Like Substances......Page 258
Nutritional Aspects of Pregnancy and Lactation......Page 272
Nutrition and Development......Page 290
Nutrition and Aging......Page 312
Nutritional Assessment......Page 322
Obesity and Eating Disorders......Page 334
Cholesterol and Hyperlipidemia......Page 356
Osteoporosis......Page 372
Nutritional Aspects of Diabetes......Page 384
Nutritional Aspects of Genetic Disease......Page 398
Nutritional and Metabolic Effects of Alcohol......Page 418
Nutritional Epidemiology......Page 434
Dietary Fiber......Page 446
Antioxidants and Health......Page 458
Toxicants Occurring Naturally in Foods and Additives......Page 470
Vegetarianism and Other Popular Nutritional Practices......Page 484
Nutritional Aspects of Biotransformation......Page 498
Nutraceuticals......Page 512
Alternative Medicine: Dietary Supplements......Page 536
Index......Page 560
