Esenciales De La Nutricion Humana

Essentials of Human Nutrition, SECOND EDITION

Jim Mann A. Stewart Truswell Editors

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Essentials of Human Nutrition Second Edition

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Essentials of Human Nutrition
SECOND EDITION
Edited by

Jim Mann

Professor of HumanNutrition, University of Otago, New Zealand

A. Stewart Truswell

Professor of Human Nutrition, University of Sydney, Australia

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Preface to the Second Edition
We and ourcontributors are very pleased that Essentials of Human Nutrition has established itself as a reliable and reader-friendly textbook for students embarking on courses in human nutrition. It has been adopted as a human nutrition course textbook in several countries, and has proven a useful reference work for medical students, doctors and other health professionals requiring up-to-date, authoritativeinformation on the role of nutrition in human health. Nutrition research and interpretations of it do not stand still. To ensure the information remains as current as possible we and Oxford University Press have produced this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, three years after the successful first edition—something which is not possible with larger textbooks. All sections have beenrevised and new chapters added, including one on the topical issue of Functional Foods. This Second Edition has seven new contributors, with contributors coming from Australia, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. We are very grateful to our contributors for their expertise and cooperation. Jim Mann Stewart Truswell November 2001

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