Main description:

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. Thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect major advances over the past decade, this reference lists entries alphabetically and cross-references them when multiple terms are used for the same definition. Each entry is followed either by a definition, paragraph, essay, composition, article, or feature article. Many of the more complex entries are supported with figures or tables.

New Material in the Third Edition

Gut hormones and their functions
Food intake recommendations
New drugs with nutritional applications
Novel discoveries of transport and messenger proteins
Gene polymorphisms involved in nutritional responses

A compilation of terms of interest to the nutritionist and non-nutritionist, this book is an alphabetical list of medical terms, drugs, biochemical, genetic and physiological terms relevant to understanding the need for and use of nutrients.

Contents:

Absorption. Additives. Amino Acids. Anemia. Apoptosis. Ascorbic Acid. Biotin. Carbohydrate. Choline. Contamination of food with metals. Cytokines. Diabetes mellitus. Drug-nutrient interactions. Eicosanoids. Energetics. Fatty acids. Folacin (Folic acid). Food intake regulation. Gluconeogenesis. Glycogen. Inununoactive bacterial endotoxins. Kwashiorkor. Lesion-causing bacterial toxins. Lipids. Lipoproteins. Malnutrition. Medicinal plants. Membrane-affecting bacterial toxins. Minerals. Niacin (B.). Normal clinical values for blood. Obesity. Oxidation. Pantothenic acid. Poisonous plants. Proteins. Protein synthesis. Pyridoxine. Riboflavin. SI units. Subunit bacterial toxins. Thiamin. Types of antinutritives. Vitamin A. Vitamin B. Vitamin D. Vitamin E. Vitamin K.