Nutrition Biophysics

An Introduction for Students, Professionals and Career Changers

Nutrition Biophysics

An Introduction for Students, Professionals and Career Changers

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in Vorbereitung

Do you no longer understand the countless, contradictory dietary recommendations? Do you find it difficult to distinguish between good and bad when it comes to cholesterol? Are you torn between the various dietary rules and nutritional forms that come your way every day and despair of the term "healthy diet"? Or are you confronted professionally, e.g. as a consultant or fitness coach, with questions on the subject of nutrition and would like to learn the scientific basics? The author Thomas Vilgis advises you to remain calm and to think objectively about all assumptions, presumptions, promises and suggestions for orientation.

This book leads you off the beaten track and with a scientific, sober view to fundamental questions of nutrition. Starting with the nutritional history of Homo sapiens, the author guides you into the fundamental interplay between proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, what they do in the body, how they are digested, and what role they really play. Supporting you will find in the second edition various retrievable videos in which complex relationships are clearly explained. This quickly shows how little is hidden behind some dubious statements. With the claim of a scientific and molecular view of nutrition, it is possible to put into perspective and classify many a questionable recommendation on nutrition in an understandable and entertaining way.




Biological foundations of our nutrition
Recognizing food, learning to eat: a look at evolution
Consequences of early industrialization on molecular composition
Molecules define our food
Physical chemistry of nutrition and dietary forms
Pleasure and nutrition
Conclusion - or: What remains?
ISBN 978-3-662-67596-0
Artikelnummer 9783662675960
Medientyp Buch
Auflage 1st ed. 2023
Copyrightjahr 2023
Verlag Springer, Berlin
Umfang XXI, 455 Seiten
Abbildungen XXI, 455 p. 257 illus., 212 illus. in color.
Sprache Englisch