This stimulating new book is the eagerly awaited second edition of an extremely popular and well-received textbook. Written by Martin Eastwood. well respected internationally in nutritional sciences. this important new edition provides students with a thorough book that should be adopted for use on courses worldwide. This revised and updated textbook looks at nutrition as an exciting discipline: it retains the original freshness of the previous edition but also takes advantage and note of the constructive comments provided by the readers of the first edition. Special features within the book to help students include summaries. boxes and questions. Carefully laid out to assist teaming, the book is divided broadly into sections, providing in-depth coverage of the following subjects: • Food in the community • metabolism of nutrients by an individual, dictated by genetic makeup. • measurement of an individual's nutritional status • essential. non-essential and non-nutrients: their selection. ingestion. digestion. • nutritional requirements in the normal individual and for specific diseases Principles of Human Nutrition, 2nd Edition is primarily written as a course nutrition and dietetics and for students on modular courses on nutrition within other degree courses, e.g. food studies, medicine, health sciences. nursing and biological sciences. It is also of great value as a reference for professional Nutritionists and dietitians, food scientists and health professionals based in academia, in practice and in commercial positions such as within the food and pharmaceutical industries. Multiple copies of this valuable book should also be on the shelves of all Universities medical school and research establishments where these subjects are studied and taught.

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Blackwell
• Publication Date: June 11, 2003
• Pages: 688
• ISBN13: 9781405120296
• Item Weight: 500 grams
• Original Price: 1295.0 INR
• Edition: 2nd
• Binding: Paperback