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.

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Contents

Introduction

Community Nutrition

• 1. History of Food
• 2. Social Basis of Nutrition
• 3. Food Chain
• 4. Domestic Water
• 5. Nutritional Requirements
• 6. Epidemiology

Genetics

• 7. Genes and Enzymes

Nutritional Status

• 8. Evaluation of Dietary Intake
• 9. Measurement of Energy
• 10. Body Composition

Nutrients and Non-Nutrients

• 11. Essential Nutrients
• 12. Amino Acids and Proteins
• 13. Lipids
• 14. Carbohydrates
• 15. Dietary Fibre
• 16. Alcohol
• 17. Vitamins
• 18. Plant Secondary Metabolites
• 19. Water, Electrolytes, Elements
• 20. Non Nutritive Components
• 21. Agricultural Chemicals

Eating, Digestion and Metabolism

• 21. Smell and Taste
• 23. Intake and Satiety
• 24. Gastrointestinal Tract
• 25. Amino Acid and Protein Digestion and Metabolism
• 26. Carbohydrate Digestion and Metabolism
• 27. Lipid Digestion and Metabolism
• 28. Thermodynamics
• 29. Cell Metabolism
• 30. Mitochondria
• 31. Cytochrome P450
• 32. Free Radicles
• 33. Organ Fuel Selection

Nutrition in Health

• 34. Growth
• 35. Foetal and Placental Nutrition
• 36. Pregnancy, Lactation and Weaning
  
• 37. Young, Middle Age and Elderly
• 38. Bone
• 39. Sport
• 40. Nutrition in Space
• 41. Dietary Defiency and Excess
• 42. Nutrition in the Aetiology of Disease

David Kritchevsky

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