Tag: Nutrition

Public Health and Nutrition


Free Download Public Health and Nutrition: The South Asian and Southeast Asian Landscape
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819778891 | 511 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 23 MB
This book addresses the health status of both mothers and children, highlighting acute malnutrition through anthropometric indices such as weight-for-height, weight-for-age, height-for-age, and BMI. Divided into four sections, it provides an overview of public health and nutrition, presents the state-of-the-art situation in South and South-east Asia, and analyzes real-life data on public health and nutrition not only from India and Bangladesh but also from other countries in South and South-east Asia. The book covers insightful analyses of child nutrition, maternal health, and socioeconomic factors, with an emphasis on maternal empowerment, health-seeking behavior, and healthcare accessibility in diverse contexts. The book also addresses topics such as identification of potential genes for prostate cancer, and quality of life and living arrangements of ageing population.

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Nutrition and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)


Free Download Nutrition and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): From Bench to Bedside
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819763401 | 417 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 22 MB
The book provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between nutrition and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Divided into two sections, the book covers various aspects of TBI, from its biomechanics and pathophysiological changes to evidence-based clinical guidelines and experimental models.

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Nutrition for Sports and Exercise


Free Download Mary B. Grosvenor, "Nutrition for Sports and Exercise (Healthy Eating, a Guide to Nutrition)"
English | 2010 | pages: 193 | ISBN: 1604138041 | PDF | 5,5 mb
The human body needs the right "fuel" in the form of nutritious foods and sufficient fluids to perform optimally. For the athlete or exercise enthusiast, the balance of nutritious foods and proper hydration is critical for peak performance and overall health. Nutrition for Sports and Exercise, Second Edition introduces readers to the science of nutrition for athletes and sports buffs. The book explores the dangers that athletes may face when they neglect their nutritional needs and provides valuable information about how athletes can best achieve optimal nutrition.

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Visualizing Nutrition Everyday Choices


Free Download Lori A. Smolin, "Visualizing Nutrition: Everyday Choices"
English | 2014 | pages: 580 | ISBN: 1118583116, 1119300908 | PDF | 68,3 mb
Visualizing Nutrition, 3e is intended for a one-term course in Introductory Nutrition taught at both two- and four-year schools. Visualizing Nutrition, 3e offers students a valuable opportunity to identify and connect the central issues of nutritional science in a visual approach. As students explore the critical topics of nutrition, they create a desire to understand the topics through demonstration of their relevance to the reader’s personal life. The material provides students with the decision-making skills needed throughout their lifespan to navigate the myriad choices they will face in promoting their good health and in preventing disease. Visualizing Nutrition’s critical thinking approach and a solid underpinning of the process of science empowers students to be knowledgeable consumers when faced with decisions about what to eat. The premier art program, interactive components, and applicable content make this a sure winner in sharing ones passion for Nutrition and engaging students.

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Echinoderm Nutrition


Free Download Michel Jangoux, John M. Lawrence, "Echinoderm Nutrition"
English | 1982 | pages: 703 | ISBN: 9061910803 | PDF | 247,5 mb
The purpose of this book is to present the state of knowledge concerning nutrition and point out directions for future work for the Echinodermata, an ancient group which shows great diversity in form and function, and whose feeding activities can have great environmental impact.

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Microbiome and Plant Nutrition


Free Download Microbiome and Plant Nutrition: A Roadmap Towards Sustainable Agriculture
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0367529815 | 206 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 17.4 MB
The book titled "Microbiome and Plant Nutrition꞉ A Roadmap Towards Sustainable Agriculture" is expected to direct many emerging research pathways needed at local and global levels for sustainable agricultural package and practices. This volume incorporates thirteen seminal chapters on issue based research and their practical applications covering latest information and progress in different areas of microbial supplemented crop nutrition for sustainable agriculture. The book highlights the frontier issues and applications of plant‑microbe interaction in crop nutritional strategy with topics like System biology of plant microbe interaction, Plant growth‑promoting rhizobacteria꞉ a context for sustainable agriculture, Plant growth‑promoting endophytes꞉ a context for sustainable agriculture, The role of the mycorrhiza in nutrient uptake, Plant nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur nutrition꞉ a microbial perspective, Carbon and nitrogen turnover in soils and plant rhizo‑deposition, Root exudates꞉ a link to plant‑microbe nutritional interactions and insight into the metabolic and nutrition network pathway of plant‑microbe interaction, Commercialization perspective of bio‑stimulants for sustainable agriculture, Interconnection of plants with microbiomes in changing climate꞉ a functional extension of the host and heavy metal dynamics in rice soil꞉ an alleviation through microbial intervention approach. This book will be very useful for the scholars, biotechnologists, agricultural scientists, plant nutritionists, researchers, teachers and students in the emerging field of soil‑microbiome and plant nutrition dynamics in the resilient climatic agriculture era.

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