Overview
Explains the biophysical principles of nutrition
Forms the basis for addressing various nutrition myths or dogmas
Especially suitable for people in training to become training to become a dietician/nutritionist
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Diets viewed from the perspective of natural science
- Physics, chemistry, biochemistry and biology of nutrition
- Biophysical basics of nutrition
- Molecular aspects of food preparation
- Putting nutrition myths and dogmas into perspective
- Critically examine diets and nutritional trends
- Healthy nutrition between science and opinion
- Read nutrition studies critically and understand them better
- Nutrition free from ideologies
- Food culture and history of nutrition
- The industrialization of food
- Trends in nutrition and food forms
- Vegan Diet, Paleo Diet, Superfoods and Clean Meet
- Raw food, insects as food, fast food
- Nutrition and pleasure
- Education dietician
- Training nutritionist
- Study of nutritional sciences and oecotrophology
- Study of food science and food technology
About this book
Do you no longer understand the countless, contradictory dietary recommendations? Do you find it difficult to distinguish between good and bad when it comes to cholesterol? Are you torn between the various dietary rules and nutritional forms that come your way every day and despair of the term "healthy diet"? Or are you confronted professionally, e.g. as a consultant or fitness coach, with questions on the subject of nutrition and would like to learn the scientific basics? The author Thomas Vilgis advises you to remain calm and to think objectively about all assumptions, presumptions, promises and suggestions for orientation.
This book leads you off the beaten track and with a scientific, sober view to fundamental questions of nutrition. Starting with the nutritional history of Homo sapiens, the author guides you into the fundamental interplay between proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, what they do in the body, how they are digested, and what role they really play. Supporting you will find in the second edition various retrievable videos in which complex relationships are clearly explained. This quickly shows how little is hidden behind some dubious statements. With the claim of a scientific and molecular view of nutrition, it is possible to put into perspective and classify many a questionable recommendation on nutrition in an understandable and entertaining way.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nutrition Biophysics
Book Subtitle: An Introduction for Students, Professionals and Career Changers
Authors: Thomas A. Vilgis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67597-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-67596-0Published: 08 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-67597-7Published: 07 September 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 455
Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 212 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nutrition, Food Science, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Human Physiology, Biochemistry, general