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Provides up-to-date coverage of malnutrition and the applied aspects of human nutrition
Discusses nutritional therapies for various diseases, including lifestyle-related diseases, addiction-related health problems, mental illness, and food-borne and water-borne diseases
Explores the role of gut microbiota on human health, nutraceuticals as therapeutic agents, ketogenic diets and the role of adipose tissue as an active endocrine organ
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Other topics include, the role of gut microbiota on human health, nutraceuticals as therapeutic agents and ketogenic diets. It also highlights malnutrition (protein energy malnutrition, starvation, malabsorption syndrome, eating disorders and overnutrition/obesity) and adipose tissue as an active endocrine organ. Moreover, it examines key concepts concerning the role of vitamins in the citric acid cycle (gluconeogenesis, ketogenesis, oxidative deamination and transamination) and precursors of coenzymes, as well as calorigenic hormones, appetite-stimulating/appetite-inhibiting hormones, anabolic and catabolic hormones affecting protein metabolism, and lipogenetic/lipolytic hormones.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Zoology, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Kaveri Chakrabarty
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Department of Physiology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India, Department of Physiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate, Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India, Department of Physiology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, New Delhi, India
A. S. Chakrabarty
About the authors
Prof A.S. Chakrabarty is the former Director Professor and Head of the Department of Physiology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, and former Professor and Head of the Department of Physiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry. He was also a Professor at the Department of Physiology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC) and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. He has been awarded innumerable honors during his long career, prominent being the Hari Om Alembic Research Award from the Medical Council of India and the Medical Education Prize from the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India. He has published numerous papers in publications in various international and national journals. He has co-authored a book entitled Fundamentals of Respiratory Physiology. He was felicitated by Maulana Azad Medical College Old Students Association (MAMCOS) in MIDCON-2010. Recently he was felicitated by Maulana Azad Medical College, and VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital. He has been invited to deliver lectures and Orations for Indian Science Congress and many other scientific organizations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Textbook of Nutrition in Health and Disease
Authors: Kaveri Chakrabarty, A. S. Chakrabarty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0962-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0961-2Published: 28 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0964-3Published: 28 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0962-9Published: 27 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 319
Number of Illustrations: 119 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Physiology, Nutrition, Biochemistry, general, Clinical Nutrition, Metabolic Diseases