Nutrition at a Glance
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Author(s): M. E. Barasi
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 9781405134873
Format: softback
144pp
Price: £18.99
Review Date: 18 December 2007
Review: This textbook details all aspects of nutrition. It includes: the principles of nutrition; the components of a balance diet, the role of nutrition in key organs/systems for the supply of nutrients; physiological and other challenges to meeting nutritional needs, nutrition-relate disease, and improving diets. Each chapter is clearly set out – starting with its aims. Key topics are: the consequences of inadequate nutrition; food allergy and intolerance; obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease and gastrointestinal disease; nutrition and the brain; and food choice and food policy.