Modern Lifestyles, Lower Energy Intake and Micronutrient Status

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • F. Fidanza

   Pages 1-2

3. Effects of Lifestyle on Nutrient Requirements

   • L. Kohlmeier, G. B. M. Mensink, E. Hermann-Kunz

   Pages 3-19

4. Effects of Special Physiological Conditions on Micronutrient Status: Pregnancy, Lactation and Ageing

   • H. van den Berg

   Pages 21-35

5. Critical Appraisal of Current Approaches Towards Micronutrient Requirement

   • G. Brubacher

   Pages 37-43

6. Identification of Those Micronutrients Most Likely To Be Insufficient as the Result of Habitual Low Energy Intake

   • J. P. Mareschi

   Pages 45-53

7. Biochemical Markers for Micronutrient Status and Their Interpretation

   • J. Schrijver

   Pages 55-85

8. The Functional Significance of Marginal Micronutrient Deficiency

   • R. Buzina, K. Subotičanec

   Pages 87-95

9. The Functional Significance of Micronutrient Deficiency: Vitamin C

   • A. Kallner

   Pages 97-102

10. The Functional Significance of Marginal Micronutrient Status: Folate

    • K. Pietrzik

    Pages 103-114

11. Vitamin A Deficiencies and Latent Deficiencies

    • O. Amédée-Manesme, M. S. Mourey, C. Carlier

    Pages 115-123

12. Vitamin E: the Functional Significance of Suboptimal Plasma Levels

    • K. F. Gey

    Pages 125-133

13. Selenium and Modern Lifestyles

    • K. H. Schmidt, W. Bayer

    Pages 135-138

14. Calcium: The Functional Significance of Trends in Consumption

    • A. Prentice

    Pages 139-153

15. Magnesium: Clinical Forms of Primary Magnesium Deficiency

    • J. Durlach

    Pages 155-167

16. The Functional Significance of Iron Deficiency

    • L. Hallberg

    Pages 169-179

17. Zinc: The Functional Significance of Marginal Deficiency

    • Brittmarie Sandström

    Pages 181-189

18. Lowered Dietary Energy Consumption and Potential Consequences for Micronutrient Intake: An Overview

    • R. G. Whitehead

    Pages 191-199

19. Back Matter

    Pages 201-212

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Malnutrition in Western Europe? The question seems incredible, yet one-fourth of the costs caused by nutrition-related illness result at least partly from micronutrient malnutrition. The experts in this book look for the answer among recently improved data about our changing lifestyles and eating habits. They suggest that reduced calorie intake is leading to critical micronutrient status in some population groups in Western Europe. The problem stems in part from the difficulty in estimating the milder stages of undernourishment, in part from the difficulty in believing that people suffer from poor nutrition in the midst of overconsumption. The chapters specifically examine the functional consequences of the present marginal nutritional deficiency. The authors are epidemiologists, nutritionists, chemists and physicians representing nine European countries. Their contributions paint a complete picture of international expertise on micronutrient malnutrition.

• Absorption
• Calcium
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E
• Vitaminmangelkrankheit
• alcohol
• allergy
• food chemistry
• magnesium
• malnutrition
• metabolism
• micronutrient deficiency
• minerals
• nutrition

• Institute of Nutritional Science, Dept. Pathophysiology of Human Nutrition, University of Bonn, Bonn 1, West Germany

  Klaus Pietrzik

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