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Culinary Nutrition

  • 2nd Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Jacqueline B. Marcus
  • English
  • Paperback
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Culinary Nutrition: The Science and Practice of Healthy Cooking, Second Edition is one of the first textbooks specifically written to bridge the relationship between food science, nutrition, and culinology as well as consumer choices for diet, health, and enjoyment. The book uses a comprehensive format with real-life applications, recipes, and color photographs of finished dishes to emphasize the necessity of sustainably deliverable, health-beneficial, and taste-desirable products.The book includes pedagogical elements to enhance and reinforce learning opportunities; explores which foods and beverages involve the optimum nutritional values for dietary and health needs; includes specific dietary requirements throughout the lifecycle; and examines how foods and beverages are produced. The fully revised second edition includes updated dietary and health guidelines and recommendations; more vegan, vegetarian, and plant-based meals; updated protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamin and mineral recommendations; environmental and sustainability considerations; and much more.

Human Nutrition

  • 1st Edition
  • May 31, 2024
  • Francesco Visioli
  • English
  • Paperback
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Human Nutrition: From Molecular Biology to Everyday Life presents an integrated approach on how nutrients and non-nutrients affect cellular biochemistry, and how, in turn, they shape human physiology. Over the course of 8 chapters, and covering topics ranging from the importance of diet on health to nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics, this book debunks myths and provides readers with the knowledge they need to critically interpret and navigate nutrition information. Intended for nutritionists, dieticians, pharmacists, public health professionals, and others working in related fields, this book provides a comprehensive source on advances in human nutrition.

Sustainable Protein Sources

  • 2nd Edition
  • November 17, 2023
  • Sudarshan Nadathur + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Sustainable Protein Sources: Advances for a Healthier Tomorrow, Second Edition explores alternative proteins, including plant, fungal, algal and insect proteins that can take the place of meat as sustainable sources to satisfy human protein needs. This revised edition presents the benefits of plant and alternative protein consumption, including those that benefit the environment, population, and consumer trends and contains new chapters on potato protein, faba bean, chickpea, and coconut. Organized by protein, chapters also cover cereals and legumes, oilseeds, pseudocereals, fungi, algae, insects and fermentation-derived dairy and meat proteins paying particular attention to the nutrition, uses, functions, benefits, and challenges of each.The book also explores ways to improve utilization and addresses everything from consumer acceptability, methods of improving the taste of products containing these proteins and ways in which policies can affect the use of alternate proteins. In addition, the book addresses sustainable protein as a pathway to securing the food supply and considers regenerative versus extractive agriculture alongside new methods in farming and water usage.

Plant-Based Food Consumption

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2023
  • Giovanna Bertella + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Plant-Based Food Consumption: Product, Consumers and Strategies explores the phenomenon of plant-based food consumption, specifically that which follows flexitarian, reducetarian, vegetarian and vegan diets. The book provides an overview of plant-based food products and their associated health and nutrition benefits, drawbacks, potential consumers, and strategies for approaching this emerging market. Moving from the analysis of consumers’ motivations and needs, the book describes how companies manage new product development or product rejuvenation. In addition, the book provides consumer science and marketing strategies through short case studies designed to help the reader understand how to put theory to practice.Food scientists, food developers, food marketers, academics and students studying related areas will benefit from this important reference.

The Science of Human Milk

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2023
  • Josef Neu
  • English
  • Paperback
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The Science of Human Milk offers readily understandable, scientifically sound information related to the compositional features of human milk at different stages of lactation. The book also debunks many myths about human milk and provides an analysis of the differences in human milk and baby formulas, offering suggestions for how the latter can be improved. The correlation between human milk composition and infant physiology and metabolism, growth, development, health and disease is explored in detail, placing emphasis on preterm infants. In addition, the dynamic nature of human milk, including its microbes, immunology, metabolites, cell components and epigenetically active molecules are covered. Written for researchers working in nutrition and neonatology, as well as health care professionals working in related fields, this book is sure to be a welcomed reference.

Nutrición comunitaria

  • 4th Edition
  • August 28, 2023
  • Javier Aranceta Bartrina
  • Spanish
  El texto presentado “Nutrición comunitaria” corresponde a una nueva edición del texto en castellano referente en la disciplina que, tras casi 30 años de historia, se encuentra totalmente implantado en el mercado de estudiantes tanto de Nutrición como Medicina y otros grados de Ciencias de la Salud. En esta ocasión el Dr. Aranceta cuenta con un significativo número de autores colaboradores entre los cuales se encuentran profesionales mexicanos y latinoamericanos. El Dr. Javier Aranceta es sin duda, la persona con mayor experiencia en la aplicación de la nutrición comunitaria tanto a nivel local como en los países latinoamericanos. La nueva ed sigue la misma filosofía de las anteriores, es decir presentar de forma clara y de fácil comprensión todos los aspectos relevantes en la disciplina Como principal novedad y fruto de los cambios acontecidos en el panorama de la Nutrición Comunitaria, la nueva ed. presenta una importante reorganización de su índice de contenidos y la incorporación de 9 nuevos capítulos. Especial atención merecen los correspondientes al papel de la microbiota y el de las 7 “S” de la Agenda de 2030. Para facilitar la lectura y comprensión, cada capítulo mantiene su estructura homogénea en la que se encuentran los siguientes elementos: Objetivos de aprendizaje, introducción ,resumen y referencias bibliográficas.

Ketogenic

  • 1st Edition
  • June 22, 2023
  • Tim Noakes + 6 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Nutrition**Ketogenic: The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health presents the most up-to-date and evidence-based science and research available in the field of TCR, with the purpose of training medical and allied healthcare professionals on the effective therapeutic use of low-carbohydrate and ketogenic nutrition in clinical practice. This book explores the appropriate, safe, and effective use of TCR to improve patient outcomes in a broad range of chronic metabolic conditions and aims to promote health. Focused on lifestyle management, health support and the treatment of diseases rooted in poor nutrition, this book explores the role of food and lifestyle modification as medicine and is a valuable resource for nutritionists, dietitians and medical professionals who provide diet-related counselling, as well as those researching or studying related areas.

Gut Microbiota

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 22, 2023
  • Edward Ishiguro + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Building off the success of the first edition, Gut Microbiota: Interactive Effects on Nutrition and Health, Second Edition, details the complex relationship between diet, the gut microbiota, and health. This second edition expands its coverage of emerging practical applications in nutrition and medicine.Covering topics such as the ecological concepts that apply to the gut microbiota and the effects of aging on the gut microbiome, among others, this book is sure to be a welcome resource to microbiome science trainees, food and nutrition researchers working in academia, and industry and healthcare professionals giving dietary recommendations to the general public.

The Book of Fructans

  • 1st Edition
  • March 21, 2023
  • Wim Van den Ende + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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After more than 30 years, The Book of Fructans represents the first and most comprehensive coverage of fructans generated by pioneer glycoscientists from the field. It outlines the fundamentals of all fructan types, their terminology, chemical and structural-functional features, biosynthetic enzymes that make and break them, their presence and possible roles in nature, their evolutionary aspects and their microbial, enzymatic, and plant-based production. Additional sections cover the applications of fructans, specifically, the agro/chemical and biomedical applications, health, pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications, fructans in food and feed, fructan nanotechnology, the immunomodulatory and antiviral effects of fructans and the perspectives for fructans in circular economies and sustainable societies. Intended for scientists, entrepreneurs, academicians and students working in related fields, this book will be a useful resource for all who wish to learn more about these extraordinary carbohydrates.

Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition

  • 4th Edition
  • March 2, 2023
  • Benjamin Caballero
  • English
  • Hardback
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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Nutrition**Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition, Fourth Edition, a Four Volume Set, provides updated information on the foundations of nutrition science, along with the biology and functions of vitamins and other essential nutrients present in the human diet. The book's content offers a modern understanding of the links between diet and health effects, including diseases of recognized nutritional etiology. This overview of the genetic and molecular aspects of nutrient-health interrelationships includes important content on topics like nutrigenomics, metabolomics and the microbiome. In addition, the book provides global context, particularly on the issue of food production, sustainability and climate change.The new edition carries on the legacy of a reference work that comprehensively offers a one-source, integrated bank of information on all three areas – food, nutrition science and clinical nutrition.