Nutrition and Metabolism Underlying Mechanisms and Clinical Consequences

Nutrition and Metabolism: Underlying Mechanisms and Clinical Consequences brings together internationally recognized experts to comprehensively review our current understanding of how nutrition interacts with the genetic substrate as well as environmental-exogenous factors, including physical activi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mantzoros, Christos S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ Humana Press 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
Series:Nutrition and Health
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Nutrition and Metabolism: Underlying Mechanisms and Clinical Consequences brings together internationally recognized experts to comprehensively review our current understanding of how nutrition interacts with the genetic substrate as well as environmental-exogenous factors, including physical activity or the lack thereof, to result in insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome. After presenting the scope of the problem, the first major part of the book is devoted to genetics and pathophysiology, the second part of the book presents the public health perspective of the most prevalent problems associated with nutrition and the metabolic syndrome, whereas the third major part of the book focuses on clinical assessment and management of the main disease states associated with inappropriate nutrition and the metabolic syndrome. Finally, general information useful for both clinicians and researchers alike is presented in the Appendix. Nutrition and Metabolism: Underlying Mechanisms and Clinical Consequences offers the reader an up-to-date and authoritative review of the major scientific and clinical aspects of the overlapping areas between nutrition and metabolism
Physical Description:XX, 428 p online resource
ISBN:9781603274531