Nutrition: A Lifecycle Approach

Contents: Foreword by C. Gopalan. Preface. Section I Introduction to Human Nutrition. 1. Food, nutrition and health/Ravinder Chadha and Pulkit Mathur. 2. Nutrient requirements and recommendations/Ravinder Chadha. 3. Energy/Anupa Siddhu and Pulkit Mathur. 4. Carbohydrates/Pulkit Mathur. 5. Lipids/Pulkit Mathur. 6. Proteins/Pulkit Mathur. 7. Water and major minerals/Pulkit Mathur. 8. Trace minerals/Pulkit Mathur. 9. Fat-soluble vitamins/Pulkit Mathur. 10. Water-soluble vitamins/Pulkit Mathur. 11. Digestion and absorption/Shailly Nigam. 12. Methods of cooking/Salila Thomas. 13. Enhancing the nutritional quality of the diet/Sushma Sharma. 14. Nutrition labeling/Pulkit Mathur and Suman Kumari. Section II : Life Cycle Nutrition. 15. Principles of meal planning/Pulkit Mathur. 16. Food based dietary guidelines/Meenal Srivastava. 17. Nutrition for adults/Shavika Gupta. 18. Nutrition during pregnancy/Pooja Raizada. 19. Nutrition during lactation/Neena Bhatia. 20. Nutrition during infancy/Sushma Sharma. 21. Nutrition for preschoolers/Neena Bhatia. 22. Nutrition for school age children/Prachi Mishra. 23. Nutrition during adolescence/Prachi Mishra. 24. Nutrition for the elderly/Manisha Sabharwal. 25. Exercise, sports and nutrition/Priti Rishi Lal. 26. Feeding children with special needs/Veenu Seth. 27. Nutrition and infection/Pulkit Mathur. Good health for all is a goal of every country. The growth and development of India has been seriously affected by the problem of malnutrition, and it is now being realised that every stage of life, from pregnancy, to infancy, to adolescence, to old age, is equally important to break the vicious intergenerational cycle of malnutrition. Nutrition: A Lifecycle Approach adopts a lifecycle approach to the study of nutrition. It has been divided into two sections: Introduction to Human Nutrition, which deals with basic concepts in nutrition and includes chapters on all major nutrients, their functions, and rich sources in the Indian diet. Lifecycle Nutrition, which discussed the nutritional requirements of different stages in the lifecycle. The important features of this book are: Discusses the concept of food for different cultures and the relationship of food with nutrition and health. Detailed discussion on each nutrient-energy, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, water, minerals, and vitamins. Details the different cooking methods and the effect they have on nutrient content. Focuses on the different life stages-adults, pregnant women, nursing mothers, preschool and school-age children, adolescents, and the elderly-and their nutritional requirements. Separate chapters on feeding children with special needs; sports nutrition; and the link between nutrition and immunity. Simple and comprehensive, Nutrition is a core text for all undergraduate students of Nutrition and allied courses. It is also a useful book for the health conscious, who seek authentic, updated facts about nutrition.…