Nutrition and Metabolism (eBook)

About the Editors Susan A Lanham-New, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK. Ian A Macdonald, University of Nottingham, UK. Helen M Roche, School of Public Health and Population Science, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Contributors vii

Series Foreword ix

Preface x

First Edition Acknowledgments xi

Dedication xiii

1 Core Concepts of Nutrition 1
Ian A Macdonald and Michael J Gibney

2 Molecular Aspects of Nutrition 7
Helen M Roche, Herman E Popeijus and Ronald P Mensink

3 Integration of Metabolism 1: Energy 35
Xavier M Leverve

4 Integration of Metabolism 2: Macronutrients 49
Keith N Frayn and Abayomi O Akanji

5 Integration of Metabolism 3: Protein and Amino Acids 72
Margaret E Brosnan, John T Brosnan and Vernon R Young

With grateful appreciation to the outstanding work of Dr Vernon Young formally of MIT, USA (1937-2004)

6 Pregnancy and Lactation 102
Joop MA van Raaij and Lisette CPGM de Groot

7 Growth and Ageing 119
Mark L Wahlqvist and Prasong Tienboon

8 Nutrition and the Brain 155
John D Fernstrom and Madelyn H Fernstrom

9 The Sensory Systems and Food Palatability 184
Conor M Delahunty

10 The Gastrointestinal Tract 205
Mariano Mañas, Emilio Martínez de Victoria, Angel Gil, María D Yago and John C Mathers

11 The Cardiovascular System 247
Gabriele Riccardi, Angela A Rivellese and Christine M Williams

12 The Skeletal System 272
John M Pettifor, Ann Prentice, Kate Ward and Peter Cleaton-Jones

13 The Immune and Inflammatory Systems 312
Parveen Yaqoob and Philip C Calder

Additional resources are published on the book's website: www.wiley.com/go/nutmet

14 Phytochemicals 339
Aedín Cassidy and Colin D Kay

15 The Control of Food Intake 353
Adam Drewnowski and France Bellisle

16 Overnutrition 360
Linda Bandini, Albert Flynn and Renee Scampini

17 Undernutrition 378
Paul Kelly

18 Exercise Performance 387
Asker E Jeukendrup and Louise M Burke

Index 418

"As a registered dietitian, I found the book fascinating and up to date . . . The second edition certainly is warranted due to research updates over the past eight years." (Doody's, 12 August 2011)