The Nature of Nutrition (eBook)

A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity

Stephen J. Simpson, David Raubenheimer (Autoren)

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2012
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4280-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The first book to address nutrition's complex role in biologyNutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for nutrients determines whether wild animals thrive, how populations evolve and decline, and how ecological communities are structured. The Nature of Nutrition is the first book to address nutrition's enormously complex role in biology, both at the level of individual organisms and in their broader ecological interactions.Stephen Simpson and David Raubenheimer provide a comprehensive theoretical approach to the analysis of nutrition-the Geometric Framework. They show how it can help us to understand the links between nutrition and the biology of individual animals, including the physiological mechanisms that determine the nutritional interactions of the animal with its environment, and the consequences of these interactions in terms of health, immune responses, and lifespan. Simpson and Raubenheimer explain how these effects translate into the collective behavior of groups and societies, and in turn influence food webs and the structure of ecosystems. Then they demonstrate how the Geometric Framework can be used to tackle issues in applied nutrition, such as the problem of optimizing diets for livestock and endangered species, and how it can also help to address the epidemic of human obesity and metabolic disease.Drawing on a wealth of examples from slime molds to humans, The Nature of Nutrition has important applications in ecology, evolution, and physiology, and offers promising solutions for human health, conservation, and agriculture.

Autor

Stephen J. Simpson is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences and academic director of the Charles Perkins Centre for the Study of Obesity, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Sydney. David Raubenheimer is professor of nutritional ecology at Massey University in New Zealand.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.7.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 8 color illus. 61 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Abdomen • Adipose tissue • aging • agricultural animals • Agriculture • Amino acid • animal feeds • animal life • Animal nutrition • ant colony • aphid • Appetite • applied nutrition • Australian Research Council • Bacteria • biologist • Biology • Biophysical ecology • Body composition • Calcium • Cannibalism • Cannibalism (zoology) • Carbohydrate • carnivore • carotenoid • Cat • Cellulose • companion animals • Conservation ecology • Detritus • Dietary Recommendations • dietary restriction • Digestion • Drosophila • eating • ecological communities • ecological sciences • Ecological Stoichiometry • Ecology • ecosystem • ecosystem dynamics • Egg as food • Endangered Species • energetic expenditure • Epigenetic Effects • Essential amino acid • Evolution • evolutionary ecology • Excretion • fad diet • Fecundity • feeding behavior • Fitness (biology) • fitness landscape • Food Chain • Food Choice • food components • Food Composition • food-level analysis • food requirements • Food Webs • foraging • Gastrointestinal Tract • Geometric Framework • geometric responses • Glucose • group-level behavioral patterns • growth targets • GUT • Health • healthy diet • Herbivore • high-protein diet • homeostasis • human diet • Human health • Human nutrition • human obesity • imbalanced diets • immune response • individual nutrition • individual nutritional state • Infant Formula • Ingestion • insect • Insulin • intake target • intake targets • Invertebrate • Kakapo • larva • life-history strategies • life history theory • Life span • Lifespan • Lipid • local nutritional interactions • Longevity • low-carbohydrate diet • Low-protein diet • Lysine • macronutrient • macronutrient intake • Malnutrition • Mammal • meal • Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) • Medicine • Metabolic disease • metabolic disorder • metabolic responses • Metabolism • Micronutrient • Microorganism • Migration • modern human diet • Molecule • Mormon cricket • multiple-food-components • multiple nutrients • natural medicines • Natural selection • nitrogen • nutrient • Nutrient intake • nutrient-level analysis • nutrient needs • Nutrients • nutrient space • Nutrition • nutritional biology • Nutritional environment • nutritional environments • nutritional epigenetics • nutritional geometry • nutritional homeostasis • nutritional immunology • nutritional interactions • nutritional regimes • nutritional requirements • nutritional sciences • nutritional space • nutritional state • nutritional traits • Obesity • Omnivore • Optimal Foraging Theory • organism • overnutrition • palatability • parasitism • pathogen • Phenotype • Physarum Polycephalum • Physiological responses • Physiology • Plasmodium • postingestive regulatory responses • predation • Predatory fish • Protein • protein appetite • protein intake • Protein (nutrient) • Quantity • Reproduction • reproductive senescence • Reproductive success • Requirement • rodent • secondary metabolite • self-medication • Sex • sexual selection theory • slime mold • sodium • stored fat • Superorganism • Taste receptor • Taste receptors • Thermoregulation • Toxin • Trade-off • trophic dynamics • Trophic level • Urine • Vitamin
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4280-8 / 1400842808
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4280-3 / 9781400842803