The Nature of Nutrition : a Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity

The Nature of Nutrition : a Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity / Stephen J. Simpson and David Raubenheimer.

Nutrition 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 communitie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simpson, Stephen J.
Other Authors: Raubenheimer, David, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Nutrition.
Nutrition > Research.
Animal nutrition.
Adaptation (Physiology)
Bioenergetics.
Physiology, Experimental.
Obesity.
Energy metabolism.
Nutrition > Requirements.
MEDICAL > Nutrition.
Nutrition > Requirements
Animal nutrition
Bioenergetics
Energy metabolism
Nutrition
Nutrition > Research
Obesity
Physiology, Experimental
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Table of Contents:
  • Nutrition and Darwin's entangled bank
  • The geometry of nutrition
  • Mechanisms of nutritional regulation
  • Less food, less sex, live longer?
  • Beyond nutrients
  • Moving targets
  • From individuals to populations and societies
  • How does nutrition structure ecosystems?
  • Applied nutrition
  • The geometry of human nutrition
  • Perspectives.

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