Nutrition and Disease Prevention
Series: Healthy Eating: A Guide to Nutrition
Publisher: Infobase Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781438134468
Subjects: Science; Physiology; Science: Anatomy
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1: Nourishing the Body; 2: Deficiency Diseases; 3: Undernutrition; 4: Overnutrition; 5: Micronutrient Insufficiency; 6: Nutrition and Problems of Metabolism; 7: Nutrigenomics; 8: Emerging Science; 9: Making Nutrition Decisions; Appendix A: Dietary Reference Intakes; Appendix B: Healthy Body Weights; Appendix C: Blood Values of Nutritional Relevance; Appendix D: USDA's MyPyramid; Glossary; Bibliography; Further Resources; Picture Credits; Index; About the Author.