Nutrition and Science

This important volume focuses on the connection of nutrition to science, exploring the major aspects from a real-world point of view. The book begins with a fascinating overview of the history of nutrition, bringing it current to today. It thoroughly examines how science has improved our understanding of how food impacts human health and how science has used that new information to improve human nutrition. Key elements are covered in easily accessible language, including understanding...
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This important volume focuses on the connection of nutrition to science, exploring the major aspects from a real-world point of view. The book begins with a fascinating overview of the history of nutrition, bringing it current to today. It thoroughly examines how science has improved our understanding of how food impacts human health and how science has used that new information to improve human nutrition. Key elements are covered in easily accessible language, including understanding how the digestive system works, identifying nutrients the body needs and how it is affected when they are deficient, how new developments and techniques in food technology and agricultural science have changed and sometimes improved the nutritional quality of food and nutritional supplements, and how science has shown us that eating natural foods can be highly beneficial after all.