Comprehensive resource on all aspects of nutrition and metabolism; covering vitamin and mineral deficiencies, diseases, immunity, brain and bone health, and more.
Now in its third edition, Nutrition and Metabolism has been updated throughout to present readers with the core principles of nutrition in the context of a systems and health approach.
Written by a team of internationally renowned experts, the text includes information on:
- Body composition, energy metabolism, proteins, amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, minerals, trace elements, food intake, and food composition
- Energy, macronutrients, pregnancy and lactation, growth and aging, brain nutrition, sensory systems and food palatability, the gastrointestinal system, and the cardiovascular system
- Societal food choices, over- and undernutrition, eating disorders, dieting, foetal programming, cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetes
- How nutrition affects the liver, pancreas, kidney, lungs, heart and blood vessels, and how nutrition relates to the development of traumatic, infectious, and malignant diseases
Nutrition and Metabolism is an essential resource for students and practitioners of nutrition and dietetics, as well as students majoring in other subjects that have a nutrition component.
Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Series Foreword ix
Series Editor’s Preface x
About the Companion Website xii
1 Core Concepts of Nutrition 1
Ian A. Macdonald and Annemie M.W.J. Schols
2 Molecular Aspects of Nutrition 7
Herman E. Popeijus, Helen M. Roche, and Ronald P. Mensink
3 Integration of Metabolism 1: Energy 36
Jennifer L. Miles-Chan
4 Integration of Metabolism 2: Macronutrients 51
Abayomi O. Akanji and Keith N. Frayn
5 Integration of Metabolism 3: Protein and Amino Acids 76
Emily J. Ferguson, Nicholas A. Burd, Tyler A. Churchward-Venne, and Chris McGlory
6 Pregnancy and Lactation 93
Sharleen L. O’Reilly and Michelle K. McGuire
7 Growth and Ageing 110
Mark L. Wahlqvist
8 Nutrition, the Brain and the Gut Microbiota 161
Harriët Schellekens, Mara Loana Lesanu, and Siobhain M. O’Mahony
9 The Sensory Systems and Food Palatability 188
Connor M. Delahunty and Remco C. Havermans
10 The Gastrointestinal Tract 209
Mariano Mañas, Emilio Martínez de Victoria, Ángel Gil, María D. Yago, and John C. Mathers
11 The Cardiovascular System 255
Wendy L. Hall, Jayne V. Woodside, and J.A. Lovegrove
12 The Skeletal System 276
John M. Pettifor, Ann Prentice, Kate A. Ward, and Ansuyah Magan
13 The Immune and Inflammatory Systems 329
Parveen Yaqoob and Philip C. Calder
14 Phytochemicals 356
Gary Williamson and Jeremy P.E. Spencer
15 The Control of Food Intake 369
Graham Finlayson and Mark Hopkins
16 Overnutrition 378
Albert Flynn
17 Obesity 387
Gijs H. Goossens and Ellen E. Blaak
18 Undernutrition 403
Phoebe Hodges and Paul Kelly
19 Exercise Performance 414
Asker E. Jeukendrup and Louise M. Burke
About the Editors 449
Index 452
