Main description:

This work talks about the taking in and use of food and other nourishing material by the body. Nutrition is a 3-part process. First, food or drink is consumed. Second, the body breaks down the food or drink into nutrients. Third, the nutrients travel through the bloodstream to different parts of the body where they are used as 'fuel' and for many other purposes. To give the body proper nutrition, a person has to eat and drink enough of the foods that contain key nutrients. This book examines new research in this field which is belatedly receiving the proper attention.

Contents:

Preface; Nutritional Screening and Assessment Tools; Conjugated Linoleic Acid: An Anticancer Fatty Acid Found in Milk and Meat; The Impact of Conjugated Linoleic Acid on Immunity; Effects of n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated Fatty Acid on Stress Response, Immune Function and Chemokine Production after a Severely Stressful Surgery; Fatty Acid Nutrition, Immune and Mental Health Development from Infancy through Childhood; Essential Fatty Acids and Cognition; Recent Developments in u-3 Fatty Acids Research and Cardiovascular Diseases; Docosahexaenoic Acid: An Influential Membrane-Altering Omega-3 Fatty Acid; Index.