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Nutrigenomics

Nutrigenomics

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceBiology

ISBN10: 3319304135
ISBN13: 9783319304137
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 21 2016
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The fascinating area of Nutrigenomics describes this daily communication between diet, food and nutrients, their metabolites and our genome. This book describes how nutrition shapes human evolution and demonstrates its consequences for our susceptibility to diseases, such as diabetes and atherosclerosis. Inappropriate diet can yield stress for our cells, tissues and organs and then it is often associated with low-grade chronic inflammation. Overnutrition paired with physical inactivity leads to overweight and obesity and results in increased burden for a body that originally was adapted for a life in the savannas of East Africa. Therefore, this textbook does not discuss a theoretical topic in science, but it talks about real life, and our life-long chat with diet. We are all food consumers, thus each of us is concerned by the topic of this book and should be aware of its mechanisms.

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