Nutrition and Diet in Health: Principles and Applications
Johnson Olaleye Oladele · Ebenezer I. O. Ajayi · Adenike Temidayo Oladiji
Aug 2025 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Ozzie Jacobs
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Nutrition and diet play a crucial role in sustaining good health throughout human lives. Food provides us with essential nutrients involved in many physiological activities and biological processes in the body, including growth and development, metabolism, immune function, and overall well-being. Nutrition and Diet in Health: Principles and Applications reviews and discusses the issues related to the roles of nutrition and diet in human health and diseases.
The book contains two sections—one section features principles, the other, covers applications. Part I provides information on sustainable use of nutrition and diets in health and diseases; advanced biotechnological approaches to improve nutritional content of food; trace elements in nutrition; drug and nutrient interactions; functional foods and nutraceuticals in health maintenance; and biomarkers of functional foods and nutraceuticals in health maintenance. Part II discusses the significance of nutrition in selected human diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, infection, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic comorbidities. It also discusses optimal nutrition for wellness, fitness, pregnancy, mental health, aging, and longevity. Nutrition and Diet in Health is suitable for academia and scientists, enhances knowledge of students in healthcare and areas of biological sciences.
The book contains two sections—one section features principles, the other, covers applications. Part I provides information on sustainable use of nutrition and diets in health and diseases; advanced biotechnological approaches to improve nutritional content of food; trace elements in nutrition; drug and nutrient interactions; functional foods and nutraceuticals in health maintenance; and biomarkers of functional foods and nutraceuticals in health maintenance. Part II discusses the significance of nutrition in selected human diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, infection, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic comorbidities. It also discusses optimal nutrition for wellness, fitness, pregnancy, mental health, aging, and longevity. Nutrition and Diet in Health is suitable for academia and scientists, enhances knowledge of students in healthcare and areas of biological sciences.
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