University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classification of biological structures-- Digestion and absorption-- Nutrients that resist or escape digestion-- Regulation of energy metabolism-- Energy requirement-- Lipids-- Obesity-- Protein-- Vitamins-- Inorganic nutrients-- Diet and cancer-- Nutrition methodology-- Dot blots, molecular cloning, and DNA sequencing-- Methods and terms in epidemiology.

"Nutritional Biochemistry is intended for students of nutrition and related biological sciences, as well as premedical, nursing, and animal science students. This book allows students to receive a hands-on perspective of the field. Each case study either leads to a subsequent discovery or enables an understanding of the physiological mechanisms of action of various nutrition-related processes. The text is "picture oriented" and the commentary directed toward explaining graphs, figures, and tables. This "real-world" approach allows students to come away with a realistically informed view of the basis for much of our understanding of nutritional biochemistry."--Jacket.