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Book SynopsisWritten for anyone interested in how diet, nutrition and exercise affect our metabolism, this concise book explains clearly the metabolic processes that underlie all aspects of our daily lives. It dispels common misconceptions about human metabolism and enables readers to approach critically information about diet and lifestyle.
Trade Review'Are you interested in your health and want to understand how your body functions? Do you want to learn the science behind how food and exercise interact and how together they can both foster wellbeing or lead to poor health and disease? This, and all you need to know about the key role of human metabolism for health and disease, is what Understanding Human Metabolism gives you. The author, Professor Keith Frayn, is probably the best teacher of human metabolism and nutrition of our times and has published several superb books on the topic for students of medicine and nutrition. This time, I would like to congratulate anyone without medical training but with an interest in human metabolism - this is the book for you.' Olle Ljungqvist, Professor of Surgery, Örebro University and Affiliated Professor of Surgery, Nutrition and Metabolism, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
'Insightful, objective, easy reading. Nutritional biochemistry and metabolism in the right measure.' Teresa H. M. da Costa, Department of Nutrition, University of Brasília, Brazil
'Everyone has a metabolism, and most people have a folk understanding of it. This very clear account of this actually complex subject brings science to bear on such understandings. Reading it will help you understand yourself better.' Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, University of Oxford, UK
Table of ContentsForeword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. What is metabolism?; 2. Metabolic fuels; 3. Metabolic pathways; 4. Communication systems in human metabolism; 5. ATP, the common currency of metabolic energy; 6. Metabolism in daily life; 7. Metabolism is so adaptable; 8. Metabolic interactions between nutrients; 9. Metabolic disorders; Concluding remarks; Summary of common misunderstandings; Index.
