Nutrition

In order to achieve and maintain peak performance, elite-level athletes require the right nutrition at the right time. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research on the nutritional requirements of athletes at the top of their game. Since researchers, clinicians, and graduate ..

This work offers detailed coverage of the biochemical and metabolic framework that forms the basis for the current theory of nutrition support. It presents analyses of the practical aspects of providing nutrition to hospitalized patients, and examines nutrition support in critical care and sepsis, c..

Well-illustrated throughout and with in-depth analyses, this one-stop-shop to nutrition and liver disease provides a holistic understanding of the causative elements that precipitate liver disease and the nutritional factors and regimens that reverse deteriorating hepatic function. It discusses the ..

Extensive research on nutrigenomics has unveiled numerous epigenetic mechanisms that are influenced by our dietary signature. This book illustrates how nutrition can influence epigenetic inheritance and the mechanisms that underlie modification of an individual’s metabolic imprint. The text discusse..

This book focuses on the influence of diet on the immune system and how altering one’s diet helps prevent and treat infections and chronic diseases. It reviews basic immunology and discusses changes in immune function throughout the lifecycle...

This book provides a summary of the current state-of-the-art evidence of nutrition-infection interactions, including relevant clinical and basic science research and its impact on health and disease. It explores the role of nutrition in health and disease as well as effects of both under and over nu..

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the number one killer of women and men in Western civilization, but nutritional interventions with both appropriate noninflammatory diets and targeted nutraceutical supports are simple and basic strategies to prevent as well as help manage CAD and CHF. This evid..

Anemias resulting from nutritional factors constitute the largest nutrition health problem affecting populations in both developed and developing nations. Nutritional Anemias examines these anemias in detail and offers a balanced approach that includes current research findings on the etiology and c..

Each chapter of this volume presents a reasonably succinct state-of-the-art appraisal of present knowledge in the particular field or problem covered. Following this, each chapter focuses on the problems and pitfalls, both conceptual and technological, of work in the particular field, and presents t..

Despite all the information available, patients often have difficulty maintaining a proper diet. This text provides clinicians with easy-to-follow instructions on how to change dietary behavior. The book uses examples from work completed in actual patient settings and emphasizes why a particular str..

An up-to-date review about what is hypothetical and what is known about the most extensively used ergogenic aids...

_x005F_x000D_ New discoveries in molecular biology, analytical chemistry, and biochemistry have led to the development of new tools that are likely to revolutionize the study of food. In this volume, a panel of contributors examine metabolomics, metagenomics, nutrigenomics, transcriptomics, and prot..