Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism (with Infotrac) [With Infotrac]

by Timothy P Carr, Jack L Smith, Sareen S. Gropper, et al.

Book Overview

The leading and most current text available for the capstone level undergraduate nutrition course, Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism, Fourth Edition provides a sophisticated understanding of digestion, absorption and metabolism of fat, protein and carbohydrates. It covers the biochemistry of vitamins, minerals, and energy nutrients. In addition, the text examines the structure and function of water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins and their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534559867
• ISBN13: 9780534559861
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 3.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.8" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Read this front to back before grad school

This book provides essential nutrition basics. It is easy to understand and you can lift it without back strain. I bought it while midway through my graduate courses in nutrition, though should have read it before and used it as a reference during.

Outstanding

I received the book in excellent conditions and within a reasonable time frame. Thank you very much!

A WOW book!

A real textbook. Food science to it's fullest. Kira Levy Naturopath

The best advanced nutrition book I know.

If you want (or need) to go deep into nutrition, this is the book. Very well organized and researched information. Covers in depth nutritional physiology and biochemistry. I used this book in an advanced undergraduate nutrition course and I consider it one of my prized possessions. If there is a better book on the subject, I would like to know about it.

Best biochemical nutrition textbook!

I am a graduate student who majors in Nutrition. This is a best biochemical nutrition textbook I ever read! What I like about this textbook is: (1) relatively light weight (575 pages) for this type of textbook, yet very comprehensive. It contains from basic physiology and biochemistry to a current field such as antioxidant nutrition; (2) a large amount of well summarized figures (almost every page has al least one figure); (3) plain English; (4) each chapter concludes with annotated bibliography so that you could use this book as a sort of literature review on a specific field; (5) well-made index, so that you could use this as a sort of encyclopedia of nutrition. Title says "advanced", but I recommend this book to undergraduate students who look for explanation on the biochemistry basis in the nutrition field.