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Most Americans suffer stomach problems. Many lead lives of utter misery. Whether you call it heartburn or acid reflux, this painful affliction is also associated with throat cancer. Shockingly, the problem may not be too much stomach acid, but too little! And antacids and acid blockers may actually be making the problem worse. This powerful little book offers solid scientific information about one of the most common and distressing ailments in America. There is also fascinating information about little-used all-natural supplements. Now with linking index and endnotes.
This book contains selected conference presentations which cover theoretical and applicative aspects of starch chemistry and technology. Among chapters presenting results of the research in particular laboratories, there are also reviews on the present state of knowledge on structure starch granules, their biosynthesis, effect of starch structure upon its functional properties, chemical modifications of starch.
Dietary therapy has always been important to medical practice even if it has more often been sacramental than physiological in effect. "You are what you eat" meant a lot to primitive tribes whose new leader had to eat part of his predecessor, and giving diets brought out the priest in the physician even if he or she had heard that "nothing that enters into a man defiles a man. " What people eat began to take on new meaning, however, a generation ago when Schoenheimer and others made clear that body fat and muscle protein were not the sluggish unchanging masses they had appeared but instead were store houses of energy and material influenced by food, activity, and metabolic pro cesses. Fiber,...
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Abstract: A basic, but comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date text for dietitians and clinical nutritionists presents 58 overview papers on various areas of modern nutrition prepared by experts in their respective fields. The 58 papers of the text are organized among 9 principal themes, including energy concepts and related requirements luding obesity and undernutrition); macronutrients and metabolism; fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamins; macrominerals (Ca, P, Mg, Na, K); microminerals (Fe, Zn, Cu,Se, Co, F, Si, Mn, Cr, I); nutritional needs in special situations (infancy, pregnancy, longevity, malnutrition, parenteral feedings, immune response); nutritional approaches to disease prevention and therapy; and the key historical events in nutrition information development. (wz).