Personal and public health / health education

Access to safe, adequate, and nutritionally balanced food is a cornerstone of public health.

Diverse in chemical nature, water soluble and lipid soluble vitamins are essential micronutrients that react with specific protein entities and are transported to sites for participation in intracellular events, both at the genomic and non-genomic levels.

Completely revised and updated, Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient: A Guide to Practice, Second Edition presents an unbiased, evidence-based examination of critical nutrition across the life cycle.

Written by an esteemed list of international authors, this book presents timely reviews relating to some of the most important aspects of gestational diabetes, specifically its causes, consequences, and treatments.

While functional foods have become a reasonably well-established concept, personalized nutrition is still treated with skepticism by many.

Rising to the Challenge of Life After Cancer: Expert Advice for Finding Wellness is an easy-to-read self-help guide for people facing cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Studies with bacteria and other systems suggest that the omega-3 fatty acid DHA confers great benefits to neurons in maximizing both speed of neural impulses and energy efficiency.

With cardiovascular disease remaining one of the primary causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, there is a great need to further understand the molecular basis of this disease class and develop new therapeutic or preventative measures.

While cereals remain the world's largest food yield - with more than 2.

Food antioxidants are of primary importance for the preservation of food quality during processing and storage.

Today's knowledge of human health demands a multidisciplinary understanding of medically related sciences, and Case Studies in the Physiology of Nutrition answers the call.

Although acute inflammation is a healthy physiological response indicative of wound healing, chronic inflammation has been directly implicated in a wide range of degenerative human health disorders encompassing almost all present day non-communicable diseases including autoimmune diseases, obesity, diabetes and atherosclerosis.

Statistical Analysis of Human Growth and Development is an accessible and practical guide to a wide range of basic and advanced statistical methods that are useful for studying human growth and development.

An examination of the role nutrients play in mental health, this book reviews the scientific literature from many fields of science: health, psychology, nutrition, mental well-being, and the interface with chronic disease.

The focus of food science and technology has shifted from previous goals of improving food safety and enhancing food taste toward providing healthy and functional foods.

Bioactive peptides are used to enhance the body's antioxidant status, antisepsis capacity, immune function, anti-inflammatory capacity, mineral absorption, and appetite.

Emphasizing the essential principles underlying the preparation of cereal-based products and demonstrating the roles of ingredients, Cereal Grains: Laboratory Reference and Procedures Manual is a practical laboratory manual complementing the author's text, Cereal Grains: Properties, Processing, and Nutritional Attributes.

The notion of matching diet with an individual's genetic makeup is transforming the way the public views nutrition as a means of managing health and preventing disease.

Over the past two decades, type 2 diabetes has emerged as a leading threat to global health, and the considerable overlap in obesity and diabetes trends are likely no coincidence.

Vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency is a worldwide, public health problem in both developed and developing countries.

Physical activity remains a critical area of research as we consider cost-effective measures for lowering the chronic disease epidemic worldwide.

Kidney disease is a global health concern that affects people of all ages and races.

Designed to address the nutritional needs of women over the age of 18 who partake in sports on a regular basis, Nutrition and the Female Athlete: From Research to Practice highlights nutritional concerns specific to active women.

Bone health is one of the most widely discussed topics in pediatric nutrition.

Following in the tradition of its popular predecessors, the CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition, Third Edition explains hundreds of terms commonly used in medicine, food science, metabolism, physiology, and nutrition.

Flavonoids exert a multiplicity of biological effects on humans and can have beneficial implications for numerous disease states.

There is a wealth of published research on the health-promoting effects of green tea and its various components including polyphenols.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared obesity a global epidemic.

Vitamin A (retinol) is an essential dietary compound with myriad metabolic and regulatory functions.

The contributors to this book are authors of international and national standing, leaders in the field and trendsetters.

Tomatoes have become a dietary staple for humans in many parts of the world.

This ground breaking book draws on original research to critically examine the construction of eating disorders and disordered eating, in an analysis that encompasses psychiatry, cultural representations, and the politics of eating disorders.

Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, food and nutrition sciences have undergone a fundamental molecular transformation.

The prevalence of obesity in the United States and the rest of the industrialized world has skyrocketed in the past 20 years.

Women's health and nutrition concerns have moved to the forefront of research with the mandate by the National Institutes of Health to include women in formerly male-only studies assessing responses to diet and disease.

Melatonin is a powerful hormone and antioxidant with numerous effects on the metabolism and the health of humans.

Reduced production of DHEA associated with the diseases that accompany aging has led to its use as a nutritional supplement for antiaging, metabolic support, and other purposes.

Even though enormous advancements have been made in identifying evidence-based lifestyle strategies for hypertension prevention and management, little progress has been made in implementing these proven strategies.

An increasing number of people have food allergies or require special diets, and they are dining out more often.

Exercise and Disease Management is designed to help managed care physicians, their patients, other health care professionals, and interested readers integrate current exercise guidelines into their practices.

Useful to nutritionists, physicians, and public health professionals as well as food scientists and technologists, and process engineers, this book reviews the metabolism and health benefits as well as international safety and regulatory information of diacylglycerol oils.

Healthful Lipids addresses critical and current regulatory issues and emerging technologies, as well as the efforts made toward the production of healthier lipids.

Advances in Conjugated Linoleic Acid Research, Volume 2 is the second book in a series devoted entirely to conjugated linoleic acid.

As the field of nutritional neuroscience has grown, both the scientific community and the general population have expressed a heightened interest in the effect of nutrients on behavior.

Our understanding of eating disorders has improved markedly over the past 10 years since the publication of the previous edition of this volume.

A complex disease entity, intestinal failure (IF) has only recently become accepted as a distinct clinical syndrome.

Bioactive peptides are used to enhance the body's antioxidant status, antisepsis capacity, immune function, anti-inflammatory capacity, mineral absorption, and appetite.

While the gastrointestinal tract ingests, digests, and absorbs nutrients, the liver transforms nutrients, synthesizes plasma proteins, and detoxifies bacteria and toxins absorbed from the gut.

Nutritional assessment is a key to determining the health and performance efficiency of professional, collegiate, and recreational athletes.

Dietary factors have been implicated in at least four of the ten leading causes of death in the U.