Overview
Holistically covers all there is to know about nutritional
deficiencies from single nutrients to famines
Every chapter includes policies and protocols
to diagnose, prevent, recognize, or treat deficiencies
Every chapter includes summary points that encapsulate the information succinctly
Authors are leaders in the field, of international and national standing
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Table of contents (124 entries)
Keywords
- famine and starvation
- malnutrition and under nutrition
- nutirent deprivation
- nutritional deficiency
- nutrition and public health
- general aspects of famine
- effects of famine
- food security and socioeconomic status
- nutrition and poverty
- dietary extemism
- nutritional fads and trends
- refugees, displacement, and malnutrition
- medical causes of dietary restrictions
- anorexia nervosa
- classifications of starvation and malnutrition
- kwashiorkor and marasmus
- Fasting and the individual
- starvation and the individual
- molecular effects of starvation
- modeling nutrition systems in vertebrates and lower organism
About this book
This book addresses the causes and effects of nutrient deficiencies along the cell-to-communities continuum. The book is primarily concerned with a lack or deficiency of one or more micro- or macronutrients in connection with malnutrition, under nutrition, and starvation. Embedded within the deficiency states is acute restriction whereby food is withdrawn completely for short periods, as when individuals are adhering to religious requirements or undergoing surgical procedures. Further downstream is the consumption of a fraction of the normal diet, as when individuals are dieting or when there is restriction in the amount or variety of food available. The causes of such reductions in dietary intake are varied and also include the social context of poverty, financial limitations, and famine. Refugees and displaced persons may also be vulnerable to under nutrition or total starvation. Diseases may also impact on the total food consumed, such as when there are physical impediments (intestinal obstruction or dysphagia) or anorexia (induced by organic disease or as a disease process per se, ie, anorexia nervosa). This book, organized as approximately 125 chapters in 17 major sections, covers the variable manifestations of dietary restrictions on cells, whole organs, the individual, and societies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Victor Preedy is a professor of nutritional biochemistry in the diabetes and nutritional sciences division and director of the genomics center at Kings College London. After the successful award of his doctoral degree he studied aspects of cardiac protein metabolism at the National Heart Hospital. After 4 years, he then moved to the MRC Clinical Research Centre in Harrow, which was followed by his appointment as a lecturer to Kings College in 1988. He was promoted to professor in 2003. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of various societies including the Biochemical Society, the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, and the Medical Research Society. He is on the editorial board of Addiction Biology, Journal of Cellular Pathology, Frontiers in Bioscience, International Journal of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, and Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Dr. Vinood B. Patel is a senior lecturer in clinical biochemistry at the University of Westminster and honorary fellow at King’s College London. He presently directs studies on metabolic pathways involved in liver disease, particularly related to mitochondrial energy regulation and cell death. Dr Patel graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a degree in pharmacology and completed his PhD in protein metabolism from King’s College London in 1997. His post-doctoral work was carried out at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical School studying structural-functional alterations to mitochondrial ribosomes, where he developed novel techniques for characterise their biophysical properties. Dr Patel is a nationally and internationally recognised alcohol researcher and was involved in several NIH funded biomedical grants related to alcoholic liver disease. Dr Patel has edited biomedical books in the area of nutrition and health prevention, autism, biomarkers and has published over 150 articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Famine, Starvation, and Nutrient Deprivation
Book Subtitle: From Biology to Policy
Editors: Victor Preedy, Vinood B. Patel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40007-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Medicine, Reference Module Medicine
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40007-5Due: 11 October 2018
Topics: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health Psychology, Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology