Food and Nutrition
Sustainable food and health systems
- 752 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Food--how we produce, prepare, share and consume it--is fundamental to our wellbeing. It also connects the human body to the complex and dynamic systems of our environment. This is more significant than ever before in human history, as climate change and increasing population impact on global ecosystems.
This fourth edition of Food and Nutrition has been completely rewritten to reflect an ecosystems approach to human health. It is shaped around four dimensions of human nutrition: biology, society, environment and economy.
Food and Nutrition provides a comprehensive overview of food components and the biochemistry of foods and digestion. It outlines nutrition needs at different life stages, dietary disorders, and social and cultural influences on food selection and consumption. It also explores the increasing influence of technology on agriculture and food preparation, and recent research into intergenerational nutrition and nutrigenomics. At every stage it points to how you can impact your own health and the health of others as a global citizen and as a health or other food-system-related professional.
Extensively illustrated with informative graphs, diagrams and data, and with examples, glossaries and reflective exercises, Food and Nutrition is the ideal introduction to the field of nutrition and dietetics for the 21st century, and a valuable professional reference for early career dietitians.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- {List of figures and tables}
- {Contributors}
- 01 {An econutrition approach to health}
- {Part 1} Your professional toolkit
- {Part 2} Food systems
- {Part 3} Food, nutrients and other bioactive food components
- {Part 4} Nutrition across the life-course
- {Part 5} Nutrition assessment, monitoring and surveillance
- {Part 6} Food, the environment and society
- {Part 7} Nutritional biology and ecohealth disorders
- {Acronyms and abbreviations}
- {Index}