Peter Weber • Marc Birringer Jeffrey B. Blumberg Manfred Eggersdorfer • Jan Frank Editors 2019 Progress in nutrition science is continuing at an ever more rapid pace. New data from experimental and preclinical studies are emerging at the same time as advanced designs in prospective cohorts, metabolic studies, and clinical trials are providing evidence that […]
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Editors: Vinood B. Patel, Victor R. Preedy 2019 The well-being of humankind is not only dependent upon individuals receiving adequate nutrition but also upon their genetic makeup. Genes may encode proteins responsible for structural components (e.g., membranes, subcellular organelles) and dynamics (e.g., enzymes, receptor–postreceptor cascades). Many of these components will require, from the outset, an […]
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Debbie L. Humphries Marilyn E. Scott • Sten H. Vermund Editors 2021 Shifting the Clinical Paradigm Undernutrition is estimated to affect over 800 million individuals, or more than one in ten persons on Earth [1]. This number includes those who are undernourished based on anthropometric measurements and those for whom at least one nutrient deficiency has been diagnosed.
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Edited by Ted Wilson Norman J. Temple Dr. George A. Bray Marie Boyle Struble 2010 It has often been pointed out that there is a near absence of nutrition education during medical school. If this deficiency is corrected during postgraduate medical training, it often owes more to accident than design, or perhaps to the personal interests of individual […]
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Edited by Hajime Sato 2010 Policy and Politics of Health Risk Management in Five Countries — Asbestos and BSE The Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) is a unique, international partnership between four of the world’s leading science and technology universities: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Tokyo, and Chalmers University of […]
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Edited by SHLOMO YEHUDA DAVID I. MOSTOFSKY 2010 From Basic Biology to Clinical Medicine In Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night, the story is told of a young woman who became severely depressed because she was in love with somebody and could not tell anyone about it, not even the beloved himself. She is described as suffering from a ‘‘green […]
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Edited by Ronald R. Watson Sherma Zibadi Victor R. Preedy 2010 The Strategic Plan of the United States’ National Institute of Health stresses the pursuit of mechanistic studies as an overarching priority. Among the basic mechanisms identified as needing exploration are immune-focused studies. Many dietary components are believed to exert their activities by modulating immune function.
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Editors Sonia Michail Philip M. Sherman 2009 The concept of probiotics was conceived hundreds and thousands of years ago but became more tangible at the turn of the century when Metchnikoff documented his intelligent correlation between the health of Bulgarian peasants and the consumption of what would now be considered probiotics. Since then many scientists and investigators have diligently […]
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Editor Christos S. Mantzoros 2009 Underlying Mechanisms and Clinical Consequences Research on obesity spans a wide range of disciplines, from molecular biology to physiology to epidemiology and translational research to clinical medicine. This book attempts to review comprehensively, for practicing clinicians and scientists alike, our current understanding of how nutrition interacts with the genetic substrate as well as environmental-exogenous factors, […]
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Norman J. Temple ● Ted Wilson David R. Jacobs, Jr. Editors 2012 Strategies for Disease Prevention The first edition of Nutritional Health was published in 2001, and the second edition in 2006. During this first decade of the twenty- first century much water has flown under the bridge of the advancing river that is nutrition research and […]
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