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Persistent Organic Pollutants in Human Milk
This open access book reviews the trends of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in human milk and discusses the main findings of five global surveys that were coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) from 2000 to 2019. Human milk was selected as core matrix for human exposure under the Global Monitoring Plan for effectiveness evalua…
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- 978-3-031-34085-7
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- XXVII, 683
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Achieving Zero Hunger in India
This open access volume discloses rich set of findings and policy recommendations for India towards achieving the SDG 2.1 target of zero hunger by 2030. Through its fourteen chapters, it takes an integrated approach by examining diverse aspects of food and nutrition security through multidisciplinary lens of Agricultural Economics, Nutrition, Crop Sciences, Anthropology and Law, while being roo…
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- 978-981-99-4412-5
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- IX, 344
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Umami
This Open Access book covers the concept of umami, the unique taste imparted by the amino acid glutamate, was first described in 1908 by Dr. Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo University. Over the past century, hundreds of studies have explored the mechanistic underpinnings of the taste, leading to the characterization of the umami taste receptor in 2002. How this fifth basic taste figures into nutrition a…
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- 978-3-031-32691-2
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- XIII, 198
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Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262339513
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 343 pages).
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Salt wars
"Written by Michael Jacobson, Ph.D., one of the most prominent advocates for sodium reduction since the 1970s, this book is a clarion call for radical change in America's relationship to salt"-- Provided by publisher.How food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food.A high-sodium diet is deadl…
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- 9780262360555
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- 1 online resource.
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The intermittent fasting revolution :the science of optimizing health and enh…
"Neuroscientist Mark Mattson covers the scientific research that established how intermittent fasting helps optimize mental & physical performance & can forestall aging & diseases of the brain & body"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368161
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- 1 online resource.
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Food
A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices. Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped…
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- 9780262353779
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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The Principles and Practice of Nutritional Support
This book provides the reader with an understanding of human nutritional and metabolic physiology and how it goes wrong in illness. Divided into three major sections, the volume instructs the reader on how and when to use nutritional support, and includes a summary of the published outcome studies on the application of nutritional support to the management of common illnesses. In this way, the …
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- 978-1-4939-1779-2
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- Kedokteran
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Antioxidants in Health and Disease
Antioxidants in Health and Disease discusses the effects of dietary antioxidants and antioxidant supplementation in humans. It reviews the latest evidence-based research in the area, principally through prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials. The book assesses major dietary antioxidants and discusses their use in diseases such as cancer, diabetes, stroke, coronary heart dis…
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Nutritional Supplements in Sports and Exercise
This new text presents the most up-to-date research based information regarding popular sport/performance nutrient dense diets and nutritional supplements and their constituents that directly or indirectly utilize them. Previous chapters have been fully revised and new chapters have been added to cover important cutting edge topics. New chapters include: (1) Carbohydrate Utilization and Disposa…
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- 2
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- 978-3-319-18229-2
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- XXVIII, 385
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