Nutrition

Following the tradition of its predecessor, the fifth edition of Nutrition: Maintaining and Improving Health continues to offer a wide-ranging coverage of all aspects of nutrition while providing new information to this edition including:

• Increased coverage of experimental and observational methods used in nutrition
• In-depth focus on the nutritional implications of the increased adoption of vegetarian and vegan lifestyles
• Streamlined referencing - a short selected list of key references at the end of each chapter with URL links to free additional resources where possible
• Discussion of nutrition debates
• Critical coverage of "medicinal uses of food" including superfoods, functional foods and dietary supplements
• Updated bullet point summaries of key points after each major topic within each chapter

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