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Essentials of Human Nutrition

Essentials of Human Nutrition

6th Edition

by Jim Mann, Stewart Truswell and Leanne Hodson
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/09/2023
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Essentials of Human Nutrition provides a complete and student-friendly introduction to the field for those embarking on courses in nutrition, or related subjects, for the first time.

Written by an international team of experts, every chapter is carefully edited to give consistently clear and coherent explanations of all of the essential principles of nutrition.

Key Features

  • Chapters cover a broad range of disciplines to help students develop a complete understanding of the subject.
  • Inter-chapter links help students see connections between different topics and build up a coherent picture of the subject as a whole.
  • The text explains the impact of nutritional principles applied in practice, for example, in the context of sports and health care.

New to this Edition

  • This sixth edition has been updated to incorporate new research and emerging topics such as biomarkers, assessment of nutritional status, and binge-eating disorders.
  • Digital Formats and Resources
  • Essentials of Human Nutrition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.
  • The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
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ISBN:
9780198866671
9780198866671
Category:
Biochemistry
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-09-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Edition:
6th Edition
Dimensions (mm):
247x190x34mm
Weight:
1.25kg

Part 1: Introducing Human Nutrition

1:Introduction, A. Stewart Truswell, Jim Mann, and Leanne Hodson

Part 2: Energy and Macronutrients

2:Carbohydrates, Jim Mann and Andrew Reynolds

3:Lipids, C. Murray Skeaff, Jim Mann, and Leanne Hodson

4:Protein, Colleen S. Deane, Daniel J. Wilkinson, and Philip J. Atherton

5:Energy, Andrew M. Prentice

6:Alcohol, A. Stewart Truswell

Part 3: Organic and Inorganic Essential Nutrients

7:Water, Electrolytes, and Acid-base Balance, Lewis J. James and Gethin H. Evans

8:Major Minerals: Calcium and Magnesium, Helen Lambert, Ohood Hakim, and Susan A. Lanham-New

9:Iron, Patrick MacPhail

10:Trace Elements, Samir Samman, Sheila Skeaff, Christine D. Thomson, and A. Stewart Truswell

11:Vitamin A and Carotenoids, David I. Thurnham

12:The B Vitamins, A. Stewart Truswell

13:Vitamins C and E, A. Stewart Truswell and Jim Mann

14:Vitamins D and K, A. Stewart Truswell

15:Other Biologically Active Substances in Plant Foods: Phytochemicals, Bernhard Watzl

16:Nutrition, Genetics, and Personalized Nutrition, Anne-Marie Minihane

Part 4: Nutrition-Related Disorders

17:Overweight and Obesity, Mike Lean

18:Protein-Energy Malnutrition, A. Stewart Truswell

19:Cardiovascular Diseases, Jim Mann and Rachael McLean

20:Nutrition and Cancer, Kathryn E. Bradbury and Timothy J. Key

21:Diabetes Mellitus and the Metabolic Syndrome, Jim Mann

22:The Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge-Eating Disorder, and OSFED, Hannah Turner and Robert Peveler

Part 5: Foods

23:Food Groups, Andrew Reynolds, A. Stewart Truswell, Margaret Allman-Farinelli, Meika Foster, Anna Rangan, Leanne Hodson, and Kim Bell-Anderson

24:Functional Foods and Health Claims, Martijn B. Katan

25:Food Toxicity and Safety, Peter Williams and Paul Brent

Part 6: Changing Food Habits

26:Food Habits, A. Stewart Truswell and Helen Leach

27:Nutritional Recommendations for the General Population, A. Stewart Truswell, Leanne Hodson, and Jim Mann

28:Public Health Approaches to Implement Dietary Recommendations, Susan A. Jebb

29:Dietary Patterns, C. Murray Skeaff

30:Food Systems: Challenges and Ways Forward, Wilma Waterlander and Boyd Swinburn

31:Nutrition, the Environment, and Sustainable Diets, Tim Lang and Pamela Mason

Part 7: Life Stages

32:Pre-Pregnancy, Pregnancy, and Lactation, Annie S. Anderson

33:Infant Feeding and Eating Well for Toddlers, Anne-Louise Heath, Helen Crawley, and Rachael Taylor

34:Childhood and Adolescent Nutrition, Rachael Taylor and Anne-Louise Heath

35:Nutrition and Ageing, Sian Robinson and Clare Corish

Part 8: Nutritional Assessment

36:Food Analysis, Food Composition Tables, and Databases, Philippa Lyons-Wall

37:Dietary Assessment, Jim Mann and Silke Morrison

38:Assessment of Nutritional Status, A. Stewart Truswell

39:Biomarkers, Nita G. Forouhi and Albert Koulman

Part 9: Applications

40:Sports Nutrition, Louise M. Burke

41:Nutritional Consequences of Poverty and Food Insecurity in Developed Countries, Claire Smith and Winsome R. Parnell

42:Food in Hospitals, Suzie Ferrie

43:Nutritional Support for Hospital Patients, Ross C. Smith

Jim Mann

Professor Jim Mann KNZM Jim Mann is a professor in Human Nutrition and Medicine at the University of Otago, New Zealand, having previously worked as a university lecturer at the University of Oxford and as a physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

His major interests have related to the role of nutrition in the prevention and management of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, the effects of carbohydrate quality on human health, and the development and implementation of nutrition guidelines.

He has served on and chaired many advisory groups to governments and NGOs (in New Zealand and the UK) and to the WHO, WCRF, EASD, and other international organisations. He was knighted in 2022 for services to health.

Stewart Truswell

Emeritus Professor A Stewart Truswell AO Stewart Truswell was a physician at Cape Town Medical School where he worked on protein-energy malnutrition, the nutritive value of maize, and he had the opportunity to study the nutrition of Bushmen in North Botswana, then still hunter-gatherers.

He returned to the UK as Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics in London University, where his wide-ranging research programme included studies relating to the health effects of dietary fibre. Since 1978, he has been Boden Professor of Human Nutrition at Sydney University.

Stewart Truswell has been involved in many areas of public health nutrition and in the development of dietary guidelines. He has published extensively on these topics, as well as on vitamins and other nutrients. He is author of ABC of Nutrition, published by the BMJ, and he is an Officer in the Order of Australia.

Leanne Hodson

Professor Leanne Hodson Leanne Hodson obtained her PhD in Human Nutrition at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and then received the Girdlers Health Research Council career development fellowship to work at the University of Oxford.

She is currently a professor of metabolic physiology and a British Heart Foundation senior basic science research fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on understanding how the interaction between the quantity and quality of dietary fat and carbohydrate and an individual's phenotype influences metabolic processes related to the risk of metabolic diseases. Leanne Hodson received the Nutrition Society Cuthbertson Award in 2017 and the Starling Medal from the Society of Endocrinology in 2018.

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