Principles of Human Nutrition

This exciting new book is the updated and revised second edition ofan extremely popular and well-received textbook. Written by MartinEastwood, well respected internationally in nutritional sciences,this important new edition provides students with a thorough bookthat should be adopted for course use on many coursesworldwide.

Taking into account constructive comments received by studentsand teachers who used and enjoyed the first edition, this newedition retains the original freshness of the 1st edition, lookingat nutrition as an exciting discipline. Special features within thebook to help students include summaries, boxes and questions.Carefully laid out to assist learning, the book is divided broadlyinto sections, providing in-depth coverage of the followingsubjects:

• food in the community
• metabolism of nutrients by an individual, dictated bygenetic makeup,
• measurement of an individual’s nutritionalstatus
• essential, non-essential and non-nutrients; their selection,ingestion, digestion, absorption and metabolism
• nutritional requirements in the normal individual and forspecific diseases

Principles of Human Nutrition, 2nd Edition is primarilywritten as a course text for those studying degree courses innutrition and dietetics and for students on modular courses onnutrition within other degree courses, e.g. food studies, medicine,health sciences, nursing and biological sciences. It is also ofgreat value as a reference for professional nutritionists anddietitians, food scientists and health professionals based inacademia, in practice and in commercial positions such as withinthe food and pharmaceutical industries. Multiple copies of thisvaluable book should also be on the shelves of all universities,medical schools and research establishments where these subjectsare studied and taught.

For supplementary material associated with this textbook and itscontents, please visit the web pages for this book, on thepublishers’ website:http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/eastwood/

Martin Eastwood was formerly consultantgastroenterologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, U.K. and Reader in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, U. K.