Introduction to clinical nutrition

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Introduction to clinical nutrition

Vishwanath M. Sardesai

Marcel Dekker, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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