Molecular nutrition and genomics : nutrition and the ascent of humankind /
Lucock, Mark.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Liss,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-132) and index.
Defining important concepts -- Molecular mechanisms of genetic variation linked to diet -- Essential nutrients and genomic integrity: developmental and degenerative correlates -- Nutrients and cerebral function in human evolution -- The evolution of micronutrient metabolism -- Evolved refinement of the human lifecycle based on nutritional criteria -- The evolution of human disease -- Contemporary dietary patterns that work: the Mediterranean diet -- Some non-micronutrient essential and nonessential nutrients with molecular and possible evolutionary impact -- Natural food toxins and the human diet -- Nutrigenomics -- The evolution of protein function -- Leading edge laboratory tools in nutrigenomics and human evolutionary studies.
Nutrition
Human evolution.