Table of Contents

Part 1: Introducing Human Nutrition
1: Introduction
Part 2: Energy and macronutrients
2: Carbohydrates
3: Lipids
4: Protein
5: Energy
6: Alcohol
Part 3:Organic and inorganic essential nutrients
7: Water, electrolytes & acid-base balance
8: Major minerals: Ca & Mg
9: Iron
10: Trace elements
11: Vitamin A & carotenoids
12: B Vitamins
13: Vitamins C & E
14: Vitamins D & K
15: Other biologically active substances in plant foods
16: Genes, nutrition & disease risk
Part 4: Foods
17: Food groups
18: Functional foods and health claims
19: Food toxicity and safety
Part 5: Nutrition related disorders
20: Overweight and obesity
21: Protein-energy malnutrition
22: Nutritional crises
23: Cadiovascular diseases
24: Nutrition and cancer
25: Diabetes mellitus and the metabolic syndrome
26: Eating disorders
Part 6: Nutritional assessment
27: Food analysis
28: Dietary assessment
29: Assessment of nutritional status and biomarkers
Part 7: Life stages
30: Pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, and lactation
31: Feeding infants and toddlers
32: Nutrition for children and adolescents
33: Nutrition and ageing
Part 8: Changing food habits
34: Food habits
35: Nutritional recommendations for the general population
36: Implementing dietary recommendations
37: Dietary patterns
38: Food systems: challenges and the way forward
39: Nutrition and the environment: sustainable diets
Part 9: Applications
40: Sports nutrition
41: Nutritional consequences of poverty and food insecurity in developed countries
42: Food in hospitals
43: Nutritional support for hospital patients

About the Author

Jim Mann, University of Otago, New Zealand, Stewart Truswell, The University of Sydney, Australia

Reviews

`I believe this book to be the most comprehensive Human Nutrition text available. ' Dr Simon Cooper, Nottingham Trent University`Well-written, concise text covering all the essential topics in human nutrition.' Dr James O'Reilly, University of Chester