Malnutrition

Risk Factors, Health Effects & Prevention

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

2012
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-62100-351-9 (ISBN)

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Examines topical research regarding the risk factors and health effects of malnutrition. This book discusses such topics as: metabolic disorders due to nutritional changes during the prenatal stage; malnutrition in the elderly; malnutrition in inflammatory bowel diseases; and, genotoxic effects of malnutrition and infections in children.

Malnutrition is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking, in excess, or in the wrong proportions. A number of different nutritional disorders may arise, depending on which nutrients are under or overabundant in the diet. In this book, the authors examine topical research regarding the risk factors and health effects of malnutrition. Some of the topics discussed in the book include metabolic disorders due to nutritional changes during the prenatal stage; malnutrition in the elderly; malnutrition in inflammatory bowel diseases and genotoxic effects of malnutrition and infections in children.

Preface; Metabolic Disorders: Is There a Relation with Nutritional Changes During the Prenatal Stage?; Specifics of Malnutrition in the Elderly; Malnutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis; The Tolerance Model: A Non-inflammatory Form of Immune Competence Prevails in Acute Pre-pubescent Malnutrition; Genotoxic Effects of Malnutrition & Infections in Argentinean Children.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	230 x 155 mm
Gewicht	366 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
ISBN-10	1-62100-351-5 / 1621003515
ISBN-13	978-1-62100-351-9 / 9781621003519
Zustand	Neuware