Welcome to The Principles of Human Nutrition Update Website
Underlying Textbook:
Martin Eastwood Principles of Human Nutrition second edition
Wiley Blackwell Publishing
This website looks at nutrition as an exciting discipline, which draws from all branches of biology.
Nutrition is the
science of food at all
phases of life.
The format is based on my textbook published by Wiley-Blackwell;
Martin Eastwood Principles of Human Nutrition,
Blackwell Science,
Oxford 2003 2nd edition.
There is a summary of the principles, and an update for each chapter.
Click here to visit my blog: Nutrition Thoughts.
Introduction
The selection, processing and manner of eating food will be strongly influenced by what is available and by the history, social stability and economy of the community. What and how a person eats is significantly affected by the family background and traditions. Though increasingly travel is changing food choices. War , pestilence and famine can restrict food availability. Food may also be contaminated by pollutants from the environment.
Being able to eat optimal amounts is dependent upon agriculture and the political, educational and social organisation in which the person lives. The chemical substances should be available in optimal amounts and in an attractive form for metabolism . Nutrition identifies, measures and recommends optimal dietary intakes of the nutrient chemicals in health and disease.
All living creatures require a range of dietary chemicals for metabolism, growth and activity. These chemicals are obtained from a range of sources. The digestion, absorption and metabolism of ingested nutrients is determined in each individual by many factors which include inherited constitution, gender, age, activity, growth , fecundity and lactation. A person needs an adequate energy intake as well as essential nutrients to provide for the needs and control of a genetically determined constitution ( genome) which dictates protein and enzyme structure and hence metabolism. This brings nutrition to a central role in the story. The synthesis , maintenance , functioning and control of the protein complex and hence overall metabolism relies on ingested nutrients.
science of food at all
phases of life.
Introduction
The selection, processing and manner of eating food will be strongly influenced by what is available and by the history, social stability and economy of the community. What and how a person eats is significantly affected by the family background and traditions. Though increasingly travel is changing food choices. War , pestilence and famine can restrict food availability. Food may also be contaminated by pollutants from the environment.
Being able to eat optimal amounts is dependent upon agriculture and the political, educational and social organisation in which the person lives. The chemical substances should be available in optimal amounts and in an attractive form for metabolism . Nutrition identifies, measures and recommends optimal dietary intakes of the nutrient chemicals in health and disease.
All living creatures require a range of dietary chemicals for metabolism, growth and activity. These chemicals are obtained from a range of sources. The digestion, absorption and metabolism of ingested nutrients is determined in each individual by many factors which include inherited constitution, gender, age, activity, growth , fecundity and lactation. A person needs an adequate energy intake as well as essential nutrients to provide for the needs and control of a genetically determined constitution ( genome) which dictates protein and enzyme structure and hence metabolism. This brings nutrition to a central role in the story. The synthesis , maintenance , functioning and control of the protein complex and hence overall metabolism relies on ingested nutrients.
| Journals | |
| American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | www.ajcn.org |
| Annual Review Nutrition | http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/ |
| British Medical Journal | www.bmj.com |
| British Journal of Nutrition | www.nutritionsociety.org |
| British Medical Journal | www.bmj.com |
| European Journal Clinical Nutrition | www.nature.com/ejcn/index.html |
| Nutrition Journal | www.nutritionj.com |
| Lancet | www.thelancet.com |
| Nutrition Review | www.nutritionreview.co.uk |
| Nutrition | www.nutrition.org |
| Nature | www.nature.com/nature |
| New England Journal Medicine | www.nejm.org |
| Proceedings Nutrition Society | www.nutritionsociety.org |
| Science | www.sciencemag.org |
| Websites of Interest | |
| www.who.int | World Health Organisation |
| http://www.fao.org/ | Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN |
| www.undp.org | UN development programme |
| www.unicef.org.uk | UNICEF |
| www.twnside.org.sg | Third World wide network |
| www:europa.eu.int | European Community |
| www.eufic.org | European Food Information Council |
| www.nutrition.org | US Nutrition Society |
| www.usda.gov | US dietary advice |
| www.healthfinder.gov | US Department of Health and Human Services |
| http://health.gov | US dietary guidelines |
| www.health.gov.au | Australian Government Health |
| www.defra.gov.uk | UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs |
| www.foodstandards.gov.uk | UK Food Standards Agency |
| www.afssa.fr | Agence Francaise de Securite Sanitaire des Aliments ( France’s food safety agency). |
| www.nutrition.org | American Society for Nutritional Sciences |
| www.nas.edu | US National Academy of Sciences |
| www.nutsoc.org.uk | British Nutrition Society This web site has the addresses of all of the major Nutrition Societies and some journals |
| www.bda.uk.com | British Dietetic Association |
| www.nutrition.org.uk | British Nutrition Foundation. General food and nutrition information |
| www.fdf.org.uk | UK Food and Drink Federation |
| www.soilassociation.org | United Kingdom soil association |
| www.greenpeace.org | Greenpeace website |
| www.foe.co.uk | Friends of the Earth |
| www.medbioworld.com | A medical and biosciences journal link system |
| www.FreeBooks4Doctors.com | Free medical texts on line |
| www.nal.usda.gov/fnic | Food and nutrition information web site |
| www.americanheart.org | Dietary guidelines for healthy American adults |
| www.acsh.org | American Council on Science and Health Nutrition |
| Genetic websites | |
| www.ebi.ac.uk | European Bioinformatics Institute. an overview of the entire human genome structure. |
| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man and contains information about human disease and genes. |
| http://genome-www.stanford.edu | Saccharomyces Genome Database. |
| www.nature.com/genomics/human/cd/cd_rom.html | |
| www.bioscience.org | Guidelines for human gene nomenclature. |
| http:// genome.cse.ucsc.edu | |
| www.hupo.org | Human Proteome Organisation |
| www.rochegenetics.com | Roche genetics education programme |
| www.lipidsonline.org | Lipids online. |
| www.health.org | |
| www.alcoholconcern.org.uk | |
| www.wineloverspage | |
| www.history-of-wine.com | |
| www.scotchwhisky.com | |
| www.ars-grin.gov/duke | Duke’s phytochemical ethnobase. |
| www.pesticides.gov.uk | Pesticides register UK |
| www.epa.gov.pesticides | USA site for pesticide information |
| www.healthfinder.gov | US Department of Health and Human Services |
| www.soilassociation.org | United Kingdom soil association |
| www.medbioworld.com | A medical and biosciences journal link system |
| www.FreeBooks4Doctors.com | Free medical texts on line |
| www.foodtimeline.org | History of food |
| www.oxfam.org.uk | Oxfam |
| www.globalforumhealth.org | Global Forum Health Forum |
| www.alertnet.org | Up to date information on current natural disasters. |