Nutrition : a reference handbook
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Nutrition : a reference handbook
（Oxford medical publications）
Oxford University Press, 1997
Available at 13 libraries
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides in a single volume, all of the nutritional information that is likely to be required by anyone working in the fields of diet and health, food, and nutrition. It consists principally of tables of data, suitably annotated, with notes on the interpretation of the data presented. The information presented here has never previously been available in a single reference work, but has been scattered in a wide variety of sources, including the literature
on nutrition, food science and technology, labelling legislation, biochemistry, physiology, clinical medicine and paediatrics.
In each section the information is arranged in order of increasing detail or complexity, so that it is easy to find a simple answer to a question, and reading further reveals more detailed information. All terms are clearly defined and the non-specialist reader has been considered throughout. The book includes a comprehensive index and has been extensively cross-referenced. A full bibliography refers the reader to original research literature.
The information is arranged in the following sections:
*body composition and anthropometry
*growth and development
*energy nutrition and physiology
*overweight and obesity
*protein-energy malnutrition
*macronutrients
*carbohydrates (including non-starch polysaccharides), fats, proteins-including overviews of metabolic pathways
micronutrients: vitamins and minerals-including metabolic functions, requirements, reference intakes, deficiency diseases etc
*food additives and contaminants
*food composition and labelling legislation
*glossary
Table of Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface
- The historical development of nutritional concepts
- Body composition
- Growth and development
- Reference intakes, dietary goals and nutrition labelling of foods
- Energy balance and overview of metabolism
- Physiology of feeding and digestion
- Carbohydrates
- Lipids: fats and oils
- Alcohol and alcoholic beverages
- Protein nutrition
- Overnutrition: problems of overweight and obesity
- World food supplies and protein-energy malnutrition
- Vitamin A and carotenes
- Vitamin D, calcium and phosphorus
- Vitamin E and selenium
- Vitamin K
- Thiamin (Vitamin B1)
- Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)
- Vitamin B6
- Folate and vitamin B12
- Vitamin C
- Biotin, pantothenic acid and other organic compounds
- Iron
- Mineral nutrition
- Food processing
- Adverse reactions to foods
- Systematic classification of foods
- Miscellaneous tables
- References cited in the text
- Index
by "Nielsen BookData"