Molecular Nutrition
Molecular Nutrition

Author: Manlio Vinciguerra

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0128138637

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Molecular Nutrition: Mother and Infant presents the impact of diet in early life stages, from pre-conception, throughout pregnancy, and to the infant. The book covers the molecular biology of the cell, genetic machinery and its function, general coverage on diet and nutrition, pregnancy, placenta, weight gain, breast milk, feeding practices, gestational disease, glucose metabolism, immunity, vitamins and minerals. Other topics discusses include fetal programming, bioactive compounds, amino acids, intrauterine growth, one carbon metabolism, overnutrition, genetic risk factors, polymorphisms, folic acid genes, DNA methylation, genes involved in lipid metabolism, microRNAs, epigenetics, transcriptomics and micro RNA. This book will be a welcomed reference for research scientists and practitioners, including nutritionists and dieticians. - Addresses mother and infant nutrition and its critical impact on the well-being of humankind - Contains coverage from pre-conception to young offspring - Includes pedagogical features (e.g. a list of key facts, mini-dictionaries of terms and definitions, and summary points) to assist in its use as a reference - Contains coverage of emerging fields of molecular biology and important discoveries related to diet and nutritional health

Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)
Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)

Author: Bruno J. Vellas

Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 3805568037

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This book is the first of a new series which will present the proceedings of the newly established Nestlé Nutrition Workshop Series: Clinical & Performance Programme aimed at adult nutrition. Undernutrition is a common phenomenon in elderly people, and malnutrition reaches significant levels in those being in hospital, nursing homes or home care programs. Consequences of malnutrition often go unrecognised owing to the lack of specific validated instruments to assess nutritional status in frail elderly persons. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) provides a single, rapid assessment of nutritional status in the elderly of different degrees of independence, allowing the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition to be determined and to evaluate the efficacy of nutritional intervention and strategies. Easy, quick and economical to perform, it enables staff to check the nutritional status of elderly people when they enter hospitals or institutions and to monitor changes occurring during their stay. Moreover, the MNA is predictive of the cost of care and length of stay in hospital. This publication will be of immense assistance to heads of geriatric teaching units, teachers in nutrition, clinicians general practitioners and dieticians, enabling them to better detect, recognise and start treatment of malnutrition in the elderly.

Nutrigenetics
Nutrigenetics

Author: Dolores Corella

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 3038429953

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Nutrigenetics" that was published in Nutrients

Ethnobotany of Mexico
Ethnobotany of Mexico

Author: Rafael Lira

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-23

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 1461466695

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This book reviews the history, current state of knowledge, and different research approaches and techniques of studies on interactions between humans and plants in an important area of agriculture and ongoing plant domestication: Mesoamerica. Leading scholars and key research groups in Mexico discuss essential topics as well as contributions from international research groups that have conducted studies on ethnobotany and domestication of plants in the region. Such a convocation will produce an interesting discussion about future investigation and conservation of regional human cultures, genetic resources, and cultural and ecological processes that are critical for global sustainability.

Nutrition and Aging
Nutrition and Aging

Author: Irwin H. Rosenberg

Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 3805573219

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Humanity is aging. In the last century, life expectancy has increased by as much as 25 years, the greatest increase in 5'000 years of history. As a consequence the elderly constitute today the fastest growing segment of the world's population. This new situation creates many social problems and challenges to health care which both the developed as well as the developing countries will have to cope with. The present publication shows that scientific progress has reached a level where nutritional interventions may play a decisive part in the prevention of degenerative conditions of age, improvement of quality of life and impact on health care burden and resources. Topics deal with such different aspects as the influence of prenatal and early infant nutrition on the future aged individual and effects of energetic restriction on longevity. Further contributions include studies on mitochondrial alterations, digestive problems, specific metabolic deviations mediated by insulin, bone degradation, structural changes, neuromuscular dysfunctions, mental state of the elderly as well as the response of the immune system to nutrient intake. Finally the book offers a review of requirements appropriate to meet the age-related public health challenges of the 21st century.

Tratado de Nutrición
Tratado de Nutrición

Author: Ángel Gil Hernández

Publisher: Ed. Médica Panamericana

Published: 2010-07-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788498352399

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El Tratado de Nutrición, 2a. edición, aporta conocimientos que abarcan desde la bioquímica y la biología molecular, la fisiología y la bromatología, hasta la nutrición en el estado de salud y la nutrición clínica. Dirigido por el Profesor Ángel Gil Hernández y con la participación de cerca de 300 autores, es la obra de nutrición más completa que se ha escrito hasta ahora. El objetivo fundamental del Tratado de Nutrición es servir de obra de consulta para los profesionales relacionados con la Nutrición y de estudio para los estudiantes de los nuevos grados en el ámbito de las ciencias de la salud (Nutrición y Dietética Humana, Medicina, Farmacia, Biología, Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, y Enfermería) y de los másteres asociados. A la calidad técnica y gráfica de cada uno de los tomos se suma la opción de acceder al sitio Web que incluye animaciones, vídeos, aplicaciones informáticas y numerosos documentos de interés. Todo ello constituye un atractivo de enorme valor para todos los profesionales de la salud interesados en la nutrición. En este tomo se considera la composición y el valor nutritivo de los principales sistemas alimentarios, así como de los aditivos, los nuevos ingredientes y los complementos alimentarios y los alimentos funcionales. Asimismo, se incluyen varios capítulos relacionados con la toxicología y la seguridad alimentaria y con el etiquetado y las alegaciones nutricionales.

Dietary Reference Intakes Research Synthesis
Dietary Reference Intakes Research Synthesis

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2007-01-05

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0309180112

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What information is available to inform the planning of a nutrition research agenda for the United States and Canada? This question provided the backdrop for the Dietary Reference Intakes Research Synthesis project undertaken by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. The Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are quantitative reference values for recommended intakes and tolerable upper intake levels for a range of nutrients. They are used widely by dietitians in individual counseling, by federal nutrition officials in program and policy development, and by the nutrition research and education communities in government, academia, and industry. Between 1997 and 2005, the IOM published a series of six DRI reports covering a total of 45 nutrients, energy, and other food components. The IOM also issued two reports describing ways to apply the DRIs in assessment and planning. Together, these eight reports contain more than 450 research recommendations and thus a wealth of information pertinent to a nutrition research agenda. To make the recommendations more accessible, the Food and Nutrition Board undertook a project with two major elements: (1) the development of a searchable database of all the DRI research recommendations, and (2) the Dietary Reference Intakes Research Synthesis Workshop, held June 7-8, 2006, which was designed to provide a venue for hearing and discussing experts' perspectives on the research recommendations identified in the DRI reports. Two members of the workshop planning group-Drs. John W. Suttie and Susan J. Whiting-moderated the DRI Research Synthesis Workshop. After an overview and demonstration of the DRI Research Synthesis Database, panels of experts addressed DRI research recommendations related to each of the six DRI nutrient reports, the two DRI applications reports, and three cross-cutting topics: (1) setting DRIs for children, (2) Tolerable Upper Intake Levels, and (3) relevant new and underutilized research techniques. This report is a summary of the workshop presentations and discussions.

Secret Judgments of God
Secret Judgments of God

Author: Noble David Cook

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780806133775

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In the wake of European expansion, disease outbreaks in the New World caused the greatest loss of life known to history. Post-contact Native American inhabitants succumbed in staggering numbers to maladies such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus, against which they had no immunity. A collection of case studies by historians, geographers, and anthropologists, "Secret Judgments of God" discusses how diseases with Old World origins devastated vulnerable native populations throughout Spanish America. In their preface to the paperback edition, the editors discuss the ongoing, often heated debate about contact population history.