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Biochemical and Physiological Aspects of Human Nutrition, 1e

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If you want ALL the scientific facts about nutrition and metabolism, you need this textbook. In researching the metabolic effects of a low carbohydrate diet, I found the answers in this text because of the objectivity and completeness of the information presented. Other very popular nutrition texts were no help because they focus only on the politically correct high carb, low fat diet research, and do not even mention studies performed on diets with varying combinations of carbohydrate and fat. As a physician I was never taught that saturated fat in the diet raises HDL (good) cholesterol. This text, but not others, explains why.

I am only an enthusiast who feels almost seek of all wrong information about nutrition. Finally I got this book and recommend it warmly.

First to clear some things: if you are looking for fun book with popular style go away! This book is purely scientific and dedicated to specialized schools.

But if you have patience, and if you have some basic chemistry knowledge, and if you are willing to do effort to do your best reasoning to pull SOME of the information from this book (because you will not understand everything), make good notes about it, then and only then, you will be able to: understand roughly what happens when you eat something or at least have some sort of impression where is science got to in researching the processes! So if you are out of this field like me, be ready NOT to understand most of the formulas, but what you WILL understand is so huge that you should buy this book and devote a month or two to consistent and careful reading - it will pay off many times!

Beware jet, the absorption and metabolism processes are very complex and still not understood completely, but after this book you will put to trash most of your so called information from magazines and popular books. The book is written by about 50 doctors and revised by about 50 other doctors, seemingly the experts in the appropriate fields. Also you will find very good chapters on energy balance that would lead you directly to very important conclusions about various diets.

Absolutely one of the best books I have aver read. The material is very well explained and put in terms that accomodate a science professional. Not only does it describe the biochemical pathways but also the clinical applications of nutrition and metabolism. It is essentially a nutrition textbook with explenations in biochemical and cellular metabolism pathways.
Definitelly recommend!!!

good size. a good book as a source of reference and very thorough in expalanations and overviews. lacks in pictures and colored figures which may help visually convey the printed information. pages are often not broken up and completely consist of text.

There is a newer addition to this book out, but this edition is a good deal. This book is very detailed and rather difficult to understand at times, but does make for a good reference.

A good biochemial and molecular nutrition book is hard to come by. This one is mediocre at best. The carbohydrate and amino acid chapters are complicated and lethargic to read. What few diagrams do exist in the book often have errors. The other chapters are easier to read, but not divided well by subtopics. A glossary would be nice.
A good supplement to this is Lippincotts Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry. It particularly makes the macronutrient metabolic pathways for fatty acids, amino acids, and carbohydrates easier to understand.