CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition

Features
Synthesizes terms from biochemistry, molecular biology, medicine, and other related disciplines in a single volume
Summarizes and illustrates key information of nutrition topics from Additives to Vitamins for easy reference
Written by an international expert renowned for her discovery of one of the genes linked to non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

Summary
Following in the tradition of its popular predecessors, the CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition, Third Edition explains hundreds of terms commonly used in medicine, food science, metabolism, physiology, and nutrition. Thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect major advances over the past decade, this reference lists entries alphabetically and even cross-references them when multiple terms are used for the same definition. Each entry is followed either by a definition, paragraph, essay, composition, article, or feature article. Many of the more complex entries are supported with figures or tables.

New Material in the Third Edition

Gut hormones and their functions
Food intake recommendations
New drugs with nutritional applications
Novel discoveries of transport and messenger proteins
Gene polymorphisms involved in nutritional responses
A compilation of terms of interest to the nutritionist and non-nutritionist, this book is an alphabetical list of medical terms, drugs, biochemical, genetic and physiological terms relevant to understanding the need for and use of nutrients.

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Appendix II

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 (B3)
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 B12
Vitamin D
Vitamin E
Vitamin K