Books in the Modern Nutrition series

Offers data to explain the preventive role of vegetarian diets for many chronic diseases such as heart disease and some types of cancers while including recommendations and guidelines for vegetarians and those prescribed vegetarian diets. This book details various diet regimens, health concerns, and energy expenditure.

Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment, Second Edition summarizes the latest scientific knowledge on obesity in children. This edition focuses on the developmental aspects of obesity, especially on the influences and factors predisposing individuals to obesity from early periods of life. This new body of knowledge stems from both basic research and recent epidemiological and clinical studies. All chapters are updated and special attention is given to the prevention of obesity in the context of developmental physiology, lifestyle modification, and dietary and physical activity approaches.

The role of antioxidants and other nutritional agents in disease prevention is a widely discussed subject. This title covers effects of nutritional agents in major disease areas, including cancer, heart disease, immune dysfunction, and eye disease. It includes such nutrients as beta-carotene, vitamin E, vitamin C, and selenium.

Anemias resulting from nutritional factors constitute the largest nutrition health problem affecting populations in both developed and developing nations. This title examines these anemias. It discusses intervention strategies, namely fortification, food-based strategies, and control of helminth infection in the prevention of nutritional anemia.

The amino acid tryptophan has been considered to play a role in cancer development and the aging process. This nutrient has been associated with eosinophila myalgia syndrome - a human disease that attacks the muscular system. This book presents a comprehensive view of how L-tryptophan acts and discusses its pivotal role in protein metabolism.

Covers the concepts in pediatric nutrition, including theories of nutrition in the pathophysiology of disease and in developing nutritional healthcare plans.

Adults living in certain olive-growing areas of the Mediterranean Basin display high life expectancies and rates of chronic disease. This book explores the relationship among the Mediterranean Diet, nutritional status, and disease and evaluates the nutritional practices that minimize or slow the incidence and progress of major diseases.

A scientific appraisal of alternative strategies for preventing or treating AIDS and its symptoms. It examines the role of nutrition in the progression of HIV and AIDS, looking at the nutritional deficiencies found in AIDS and HIV patients, and how dietary changes can benefit or harm them.

Explores the relationship between diet, nutritional status, and disease, and evaluates nutritional practices intended to minimize the incidence of and slow the progress of major chronic illnesses. This work covers nutrients such as calcium, vitamin E, selenium, and antioxidants, their importance in nutrition, and their role in specific diseases.

Looks at what dietary materials, supplements, and foods that may benefit or treat AIDS, and nutritional deficiencies that can accelerate progression to AIDS and death. This book offers a variety of dietary and herbal remedies.

Offers the rationale for the protective roles for nutrient-antioxidants. This work contains information on how to assess age-related diseases of the eye including cataracts and age-related maculopathy. It discusses smoking and light exposure as factors for age-related eye diseases as well as the utility of potential anti-cataract pharmaceuticals.

Proper nutrition is the single most important component of preventative health care. Heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments are all linked to dietary habits. Accurate nutritional assessment can be a matter of life or death. This title explores the expanded number of nutrients that can be evaluated.

Summarizes the scientific knowledge on obesity in children. This book focuses on the developmental aspects of obesity, especially on the influences and factors predisposing individuals to obesity from early periods of life. It provides information on promoting health as a means to reduce obesity.

Edited by leading experts in the field, this book covers an important and rapidly growing area of research. Presenting examples of both macronutrients and micronutrients as they affect gene expression, it addresses lipogenesis, fatty acid oxidation, fatty acid desaturation, and glucose transporters. The book discusses genes that associate with obesity or cancer, genes that are affected by vitamins A and D, and presents information about how specific processes in intermediary metabolism are genetically regulated. It provides readers with in-depth understanding of such diseases as obesity, diabetes, alcoholism, anemia, and others with both a nutrient and a genetic component.

Since its discovery in 1957, Coenzyme Q has piqued the interest of scientists from a wide range of disciplines. This work covers topics including concepts on extramitochondrial functions of CoQ, discoveries in biosynthetic pathways for CoQ based on molecular genetic approaches, and the role of CoQ as an antioxidant.

offers information on food sources of nutrients, effects of cooking, approved carbohydrate and fat substitutes, applications of nutritional therapy, and dietary recommendations. This book offers an overview of the chemistry and physiology of nutrition designed for students majoring in the areas of nutrition, food science, and exercise.