Introduction to Human Nutrition

346 Introduction to Human Nutrition plankton are known as phycotoxins. These toxins have been responsible for incidents of wide- ...

Food Safety 347 Table 14.9 Types of fi sh poisoning Poisoning Implicated foods Associated toxin Symptoms Occurrence Paralytic sh ...

348 Introduction to Human Nutrition approval number (E number). However, there are some exemptions specifi cally applying to add ...

Food Safety 349 food supply poses greater risks to consumer health from the mass production and distribution of foods and increa ...

15 Food and Nutrition-Related Diseases: The Global Challenge Hester H Vorster and Michael J Gibney Key messages This chapter de ...

Food and Nutrition-Related Diseases 351 trade, and information exchange has led to a very rapid NT in developing countries. The ...

352 Introduction to Human Nutrition appropriate chapters and sections of this series of textbooks. The role of nutrition The evi ...

Food and Nutrition-Related Diseases 353 Prevention of NCDs in developed countries The complex chain of events where behavioral a ...

354 Introduction to Human Nutrition association between undernutrition and poverty in developing countries. Figure 15.1 illustra ...

Food and Nutrition-Related Diseases 355 of the approximately 11 million deaths each year of children aged under 5 years in the d ...

356 Introduction to Human Nutrition forming the basis for the development of antiretrovi- ral drugs to treat HIV/AIDS. More abou ...

Food and Nutrition-Related Diseases 357 Malignant diseases and dementia may develop. This is the fi nal stage, and if not treate ...

358 Introduction to Human Nutrition identifi ed and briefl y discussed in this chapter. In developed countries these are mainly ...

Food and Nutrition-Related Diseases 359 and implementation of targeted programs. In Box 15.5 one such an example is given, namel ...

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Index Note: page references in italics refer to information in fi gures or tables. abdominal girth 25 acetyl-CoA 105–7, 178–9 ac ...

362 Index body composition (cont.) measurement techniques 15–27 advantages and disadvantages 27 anthropometry 22–3 bioelectric i ...

Index 363 re-esterifi cation processes 96 role of plant sterols 91, 116 triacylglycerol (TAG) hypothesis 103–4 storage, structur ...

364 Index disease (cont.) global challenges 350–9 in developed countries 351–3 in developing countries 353–5 nutrient intake goa ...

Index 365 metabolism and absorption 171 tissue uptake 171 nutritional status assessment 175–6 food additives 10 , 200 , 346–7 re ...