Vitamins in the prevention of human diseases
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Vitamins in the prevention of human diseases

  1. 743 pages
  2. English
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Vitamins in the prevention of human diseases

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This book provides up-to-date knowledge on the role of water and fat soluble vitamins in the prevention of human diseases. The vitamins are essential food constituents with magnificent biological effects therefore, linking our biology to our lifestyle and environment. One-sided nutrition, smoking, alcohol, genetic factors, and even geographical origin interfere with our dietary intake of the vitamins. Therefore, it is not wondering that insufficient vitamin intake can impact our health and contribute significantly to the development of numerous diseases.

The book offers expert reviews and judgements on the role of vitamins in our health and the link between vitamins deficiency and disease conditions at different life stages.

Having knowledge about the association of vitamins and disease, as well as keeping track on the patients vitamin status has become increasingly important to physicians, clinical chemists, epidemiologists, specialists in nutrition, health professionals, researchers, and students who are interested in this area. Recent development in laboratory methods has helped making many issues in this field quantitative.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
ISBN
9783110214499
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Biochemistry in Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Authors Index
  4. Discovery, syntheses, Nobel prizes, modern science
  5. Vitamins
  6. B-Vitamin like Nutrients
  7. Curriculum Vitae
  8. Index