This third edition is an updated reference that defines and explains terms commonly used in nutrition, medicine, food science, metabolism, and physiology. The entries are listed alphabetically and are followed by a definition, paragraph, essay, composition, or feature article. Many of the more complex entries are supported with illustrations and/or tables. It has been expanded to reflect new advances in all areas of nutrition science. New material contains information on gut hormones and their functions; food intake recommendations; new drugs with nutritional applications; and novel…mehr
This third edition is an updated reference that defines and explains terms commonly used in nutrition, medicine, food science, metabolism, and physiology. The entries are listed alphabetically and are followed by a definition, paragraph, essay, composition, or feature article. Many of the more complex entries are supported with illustrations and/or tables. It has been expanded to reflect new advances in all areas of nutrition science. New material contains information on gut hormones and their functions; food intake recommendations; new drugs with nutritional applications; and novel discoveries of transport proteins and messenger proteins. Websites are provided for additional information.
Carolyn D. Berdanier, PhD, is a Professor Emerita of Nutrition at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She earned her BS degree from the Pennsylvania State University and MS and PhD from Rutgers University. After a postdoctoral fellowship year with Dr. Paul Griminger at Rutgers, she served as a research nutritionist at the USDA Human Nutrition Institute in Beltsville, Maryland. At the same time, she also served as an assistant professor of nutrition at the University of Maryland. Following these appointments, she moved to the University of Nebraska, College of Medicine, and then in 1977, she joined the University of Georgia where she served as department head, Foods and Nutrition for eleven years. She stepped down from this position to resume full-time research and teaching with a special interest in diabetes. Her research has been funded by a variety of funding agencies. Dr. Berdanier has authored over 150 research articles, contributed 40 chapters to multi-authored books, prepared 45 invited reviews for scientific journals, and edited/coauthored or sole authored 17 books. She has served on the editorial boards of the FASEB Journal, the Journal of Nutrition, Biochemistry Archives, Nutrition Research, and the International Journal of Diabetes Research. She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for articles in her specialty for a wide variety of scientific journals.
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Absorption. Additives. Amino Acids. Anemia. Apoptosis. Ascorbic Acid. Biotin. Carbohydrate. Choline. Contamination of food with metals. Cytokines. Diabetes mellitus. Drug-nutrient interactions. Eicosanoids. Energetics. Fatty acids. Folacin (Folic acid). Food intake regulation. Gluconeogenesis. Glycogen. Inununoactive bacterial endotoxins. Kwashiorkor. Lesion-causing bacterial toxins. Lipids. Lipoproteins. Malnutrition. Medicinal plants. Membrane-affecting bacterial toxins. Minerals. Niacin (B.). Normal clinical values for blood. Obesity. Oxidation. Pantothenic acid. Poisonous plants. Proteins. Protein synthesis. Pyridoxine. Riboflavin. SI units. Subunit bacterial toxins. Thiamin. Types of antinutritives. Vitamin A. Vitamin B. Vitamin D. Vitamin E. Vitamin K.
