Medical

Get The Nature of Nutrition Online

Download The Nature of Nutrition Online
By:Stephen J. Simpson,David Raubenheimer
Published on 2012-07-22 by Princeton University Press

Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for nutrients determines whether wild animals thrive, how populations evolve and decline, and how ecological communities are structured. The Nature of Nutrition is the first book to address nutrition's enormously complex role in biology, both at the level of individual organisms and in their broader ecological interactions. Stephen Simpson and David Raubenheimer provide a comprehensive theoretical approach to the analysis of nutrition--the Geometric Framework. They show how it can help us to understand the links between nutrition and the biology of individual animals, including the physiological mechanisms that determine the nutritional interactions of the animal with its environment, and the consequences of these interactions in terms of health, immune responses, and lifespan. Simpson and Raubenheimer explain how these effects translate into the collective behavior of groups and societies, and in turn influence food webs and the structure of ecosystems. Then they demonstrate how the Geometric Framework can be used to tackle issues in applied nutrition, such as the problem of optimizing diets for livestock and endangered species, and how it can also help to address the epidemic of human obesity and metabolic disease. Drawing on a wealth of examples from slime molds to humans, The Nature of Nutrition has important applications in ecology, evolution, and physiology, and offers promising solutions for human health, conservation, and agriculture.

This Book was ranked at 11 by Google Books for keyword The Obesity.

Book ID of The Nature of Nutrition's Books is RaENQDQDmxQC, Book which was written byStephen J. Simpson,David Raubenheimerhave ETAG "D0HVGC3iN6A"

Book which was published by Princeton University Press since 2012-07-22 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780691145655 and ISBN 10 Code is 0691145652

Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true

Book which have "239 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryMedical

Book was written in en

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false

Get The Nature of Nutrition Online

Book Preview