Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism

By Sara M. Hunt and James L. Groff

Book Overview

The leading and most current text available for the capstone level undergraduate nutrition course, "Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism, Fourth Edition" provides a sophisticated understanding of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0314579362
• ISBN13: 9780314579362
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: West Publishing Company
• Length: 517 Pages
• Weight: 2.84 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding

I received the book in excellent conditions and within a reasonable time frame. Thank you very much!

A WOW book!

A real textbook. Food science to it's fullest. Kira Levy Naturopath

Readable, in-depth discussion of nutrition and metabolism.

Currently, many people are becoming seriously interested in the role of nutrition in human health. Fortunately, there are many good books on nutrition and health for the interested lay person. But once one begins to understand the extreme importance of nutrition for achieving and maintaining good health where can a seriously interested lay person turn for more detailed information? The answer is to this book. Yes, this book requires some serious study, but it is quite well written and does not require a degree in chemistry or biology to follow. A dilligent lay person can gain much valuable information from it. If you are really serious about understanding the role of nutrition in human health I highly recommend this book.

The best advanced nutrition book I know.

If you want (or need) to go deep into nutrition, this is the book. Very well organized and researched information. Covers in depth nutritional physiology and biochemistry. I used this book in an advanced undergraduate nutrition course and I consider it one of my prized possessions. If there is a better book on the subject, I would like to know about it.

Best biochemical nutrition textbook!

I am a graduate student who majors in Nutrition. This is a best biochemical nutrition textbook I ever read! What I like about this textbook is: (1) relatively light weight (575 pages) for this type of textbook, yet very comprehensive. It contains from basic physiology and biochemistry to a current field such as antioxidant nutrition; (2) a large amount of well summarized figures (almost every page has al least one figure); (3) plain English; (4) each chapter concludes with annotated bibliography so that you could use this book as a sort of literature review on a specific field; (5) well-made index, so that you could use this as a sort of encyclopedia of nutrition. Title says "advanced", but I recommend this book to undergraduate students who look for explanation on the biochemistry basis in the nutrition field.