BIO103 Nutrition

This book provides a contextualized, accessible introduction to understanding the foundations and contradictions at the intersection of food and public health. Guiding the reader through food-focused regulation, policy, and education, this book covers: food production and availability on a global and neighborhood scale, dietary guidelines, best practices in health promotion and chronic disease prevention, and food insecurity and its paradoxical role as driver of both hunger and obesity.

Revised to reflect the most recent developments in food safety, the second edition is an authoritative text that contains the essentials of food safety management in the global supply chain. The authors, noted experts in the field, outline the key food safety considerations for individuals, businesses and organizations involved in today's complex global food supply chains.

This book provides analysis of key technologies in the development of foods for babies and children, as well as the regulation and marketing of these food products. Includes chapters on infant milk formulas, essential fatty acids in baby foods, baby food-based cereals, and macro- and micronutrients.

This encyclopedia covers topics such as dietary concerns, nutritional basics, and the effects of a person's dietary choices on one's health. Topics are organized around the development and history of a diet, its basic principles, any key figures that influence the trend, and any public or regulatory concerns associated with the practice. Provides information across all age groups from infants to the elderly.

This book examines the controversies over Genetically Modified Organisms--health and safety concerns, environmental issues, the implications for world hunger, and the scientific consensus. It explores the viewpoints of a range of GMO skeptics, from public advocacy groups and nongovernmental organizations to scientists with differing views on risk and environmental impact. This book offers an accessible review of the risks and benefits of GMO crops and a guide to the controversies over them.

This reference work addresses the fact that the well being of humankind is predicated not only on individuals receiving adequate nutrition but also on their genetic makeup. The work includes more than 100 chapters organized in the following major sections: Introduction and Overview; Epigenetics of Organs and Diseases in Relation to Diet and Nutrition; Detailed Processes in Epigenetics of Diet and Nutrition; Modulating Epigenetics with Diet and Nutrition; and Practical Techniques.

This easy to use text provides a global view of current and emerging issues concerned with successful pregnancy outcomes and approaches that have been successful or show promise in ensuring a successful pregnancy. Topics include the gut microbiome during pregnancy and the newborn; requirement for vitamin D in pregnancy; the environment - contaminants and pregnancy; safe food handling for successful pregnancy outcome; relationship of epigenetics and diet in pregnancy; caffeine during pregnancy; and celiac disease and pregnancy.

Written by experts in the field, this book provides readers with a systematic assessment of current literature on the link between nutrition and immunity. Chapters cover topics such as child development, cancer, aging, allergic asthma, food intolerance, obesity, and chronic critical illness.

This text provides information about nutritional management of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Topics include nutritional concerns of CKD populations with special needs (i.e., pregnancy, infancy, childhood, adolescence and the elderly) and the nutrition management of other disorders associated with kidney disease. This is a highly informative resource for nutrition scientists, researchers, and students whose research, practice, and education includes nutrition and kidney disease.

This is a clear and accessible textbook introducing the basic concepts of the scientific method, statistical analysis, and research in the context of the increasingly evidence-based field of nutrition and dietetics.

This textbook offers a concise, yet comprehensive account of human nutrition, food and nutrition-related health problems, based on the curricula of top universities around the globe. Nutrition is a multidisciplinary science, and as such, the book discusses various aspects of physiology, biochemistry, pathology, immunology, medicine, food science, and other fields related to nutrition.