Books in Nutrition

A Practical Guide for Interpreting and Constructing Nutritional Labeling

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
María Patricia López Ramírez + 1 more
English

The nutritional labeling system worldwide for consumer packaged goods is complex. It lacks uniform guidelines for food industry professionals that would help them better convey the impact of nutrition for dietary choices. A Practical Guide for Interpreting and Constructing Nutritional Labeling, gives a global view of nutritional and front package labeling and offers solutions to help standardize the nutritional table process. Through global historical milestones and various case studies from around the world, it allows readers to see firsthand how nutritional tables are interpreted for specific diets and constructed to maximize health and well-being. A Practical Guide for Interpreting and Constructing Nutritional Labeling, offers a nutritional roadmap for a more standardized approach to labeling. Through a series of case studies from the U.S., Switzerland, Colombia, Chile, the Netherlands and more, readers will be shown practical tools for interpreting front-of-pack labeling while gaining a better understanding of the innerworkings of each of these countries nutritional labeling processes. Readers will also be given strategies to navigate regulatory issues and gain insight into the future of nutritional labeling.

Seaweed in Health and Disease Prevention

2nd Edition
September 1, 2025
Joël Fleurence + 1 more
English

Seaweed in Health and Disease Prevention, Second Edition updates knowledge on the therapeutic and functional activities related to algae and their compounds. The book includes a new chapter on the use of seaweed and seaweed products in the current war against viral-based exposures, a result of the massive research effort stemming from the global Covid Pandemic, along with the improvement of the nutritional value of algae via enzymatic or fermentation treatments. These treatments are at the origin of the production of oligosaccharides, presenting interesting biological activities for the human microbiota.Chapter updates on seaweed’s biochemical characteristics such as proteins, lipids, and polysaccharides are also addressed.

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.

Fundamentos de la nutrición en medicina y en la atención sanitaria

1st Edition
February 28, 2025
Sumantra Ray + 1 more
Spanish

Manual práctico y de fácil comprensión. Proporciona una explicación fundamentada de los principios subyacentes. Resume los principales enfoques nutricionales en el abordaje de la enfermedad. Aborda los temas más actuales en salud pública. Incorpora cuadros resumen de las interacciones fármaco-nutriente más relevantes. Incluye estudios de casos y preguntas de autoevaluación, que facilitan el aprendizaje. Incluye el acceso al ebook de la obra en inglés. Este recurso electrónico permite realizar búsquedas en el texto, las figuras y las referencias bibliográficas, personalizar el contenido, crear notas y destacados, y escuchar el texto, desde diversos dispositivos.

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.

The Science of Human Milk

1st Edition
November 4, 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.

Plant-Based Food Consumption

1st Edition
November 3, 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.

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.

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