Introduction to clinical nutrition
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Bibliographic Information
Introduction to clinical nutrition
Marcel Dekker, c1998
Available at 13 libraries
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Offering a textbook for nutrition courses during the pre-clinical years, this work 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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - fundamentals of nutrition. Part 1 Essential and nonessential nutrients: digestion of macronutrients - carbohydrates, lipids and proteins
- requirements for energy, carbohydrates, fat and protein
- role of essential fatty acids
- eicosanoids
- inorganic elements - essential macromineral, essential trace minerals and ultra trace minerals
- vitamins - general
- fat soluble vitamins - A, D, E, K
- water soluble vitamins 1 - thiamin-B1, riboflavin-B2, niacin, pantothenic acid and biotin
- water soluble vitamins 2 - folic acid, vitamin-B12, pyridoxine and vitamin C-ascorbic acid
- vitamin-like substances. Part 2 Nutrition in the normal life cycle: nutrition during pregnancy and lactation
- foetal development and nutrition during infancy, childhood and adolescence
- nutrition and ageing. Part 3 Nutritional conditions asssociated with health: nutritional assessment
- obesity and eating disorders
- cholesterol and hyperlipidemia
- osteoporosis
- nutritional aspects of diabetes
- nutritional aspects of genetic disease. Part 4 Topics of general interest (special topics of practical importance): dietary fibre
- antioxidants and health
- toxicants occurring naturally in foods and additives
- vegetarianism and other popular nutritional practices
- nutritional aspects of biotransformation
- nutraceuticals.
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