The Role of Nutrition in Integral Health and Quality of Life: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Recent Research

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Synopsis
Achieving integral health is a challenge that necessitates a diversified approach from different disciplines to achieve a coordinated impact on people’s health. Food and nutrition form an essentail part of this approach. This new book explores some important advances in the role of nutrition in integral health and quality of life, laying special emphasis on the challenges that humans face in this era of sedentary lifestyles, diseases associated with food consumption, and social, economic, environmental, and cultural crises. The volume discusses interdisciplinary approaches to nutrition, focusing on nutrition for children, the impact of nutrition on chronic noncommunicable diseases and gastrointestinal disorders, the nutritional profile of fermented foods and their health benefits, microstructured particles as bioactive compound carriers, and more. The book also offers an analysis of obesity and its dimensions, covering childhood obesity risks and challenges at home and at school, quality of life in adult patients with diabetes, the role of genetics and epigenetics in obesity, and more. The impact of nutrition on oral and dental health is also addressed in the book.
Copyright:
2023

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
578 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000913163
Related ISBNs:
9781774914212, 9781003413585, 9781774914205
Publisher:
Apple Academic Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Apple Academic Press, Inc. Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, but the authors, editors, and publisher cannot assume responsibility for the validity of all materials or the consequences of their use. The authors, edi
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Cooking, Food and Wine, Health, Mind and Body, Medicine
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Jesús Alberto García-García
Edited by:
Julio Cufarfán-López
Edited by:
Cristóbal Noé Aguilar

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