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- Highlights guidelines and recommendations for practice, procedures and policy
- Includes unique material on other dietary and nutritional components of interest
- Spans comprehensive coverage with features including case studies with a mini review, a mini dictionary, practical aspects and summary points
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This reference compiles a wide array of topics on public health nutrition with information on research, practice, and policy aimed at a variety of readers of all levels of knowledge about the field.
Public health nutrition is a broad subject and encompasses the prevention or reduction of those diseases where food and diet will have an impact. It has been argued that poor diet and nutrition have contributed to more deaths than many communicable diseases on a global scale. Whilst these are global aspects, considerations must be given to international, national and regional aspects of public health nutrition as each country has its own nutritional-risk profile, and this work addresses this need.
Each chapter includes special topical features to bridge the transintellectual and transdisciplinary divides across the wide field of public health nutrition. Readers acquire a general understanding of dietary and nutritional components of interest; learn about guidelines and recommendations for practice, procedures, and policy; and gain insight into applications to other areas of regional, national, or global public health highlighting the translational aspects of the material. A useful mini dictionary of terms is also provided in each contribution to aid the novice reader.
The Handbook of Public Health Nutrition: International, National, and Regional Perspectives is an important resource for nutritionists, public health workers, healthcare professionals, research scientists, the medical professions and other practitioners, policy makers, and institutional or governmental departments. It is also designed for teachers and lecturers, undergraduates, graduates, post-graduates, professors, institutional and governmental officials, and libraries.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Victor R. Preedy BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSB, FRSPH, FRCPath, FRSC, is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry (Hon) at Kings College Hospital and Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Kings College London. He has an Honorary Professorship at the University of Hull and was the long-term Director of the Genomics Centre at King’s College London from 2006 to 2020. Professor Preedy graduated in 1974 with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology. He gained his University of London PhD in 1981. In 1992, he received his Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists and in 1993 he gained his second doctorate (DSc), for his outstanding contribution to protein metabolism in health and disease. Professor Preedy was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Biology in 1995 and a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2000. He was elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health (2004) and The Royal Institute of Public Health (2004).In 2009, Professor Preedy became a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and in 2012 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Preedy has carried out research when attached to Imperial College London, The School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London) and the MRC Centre at Northwick Park Hospital. He has collaborated with research groups in Finland, Japan, Australia, USA and Germany. Prof Preedy is a leading expert on the science of health and has a long-standing interest in public health nutrition. He has lectured nationally and internationally. To his credit, Professor Preedy has published over 750 articles, which includes peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research, abstracts and symposium presentations, reviews and numerous books and volumes.
Vinood B. Patel, BSc, PhD, FRSC, is currently Reader in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Westminster. In 2014 Dr Patel was elected as a Fellow to The RoyalSociety of Chemistry. Dr Patel graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a degree in Pharmacology and completed his PhD in protein metabolism from King’s College London in 1997. His postdoctoral work was carried out at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical School, NC, USA studying structural-functional alterations to mitochondrial ribosomes, where he developed novel techniques to characterize their biophysical properties. Research is being undertaken to study the role of nutrients, antioxidants, phytochemicals, iron, alcohol and fatty acids in the pathophysiology of disease. Other areas of interest are identifying new biomarkers that can be used for the diagnosis and prognosis of disease and understanding mitochondrial oxidative stress. Dr Patel is a nationally and internationally recognized researcher and has several edited biomedical books related to nutrition. These books include The Handbook of Nutrition, Diet, and Epigenetics and Handbook of Famine, Starvation, and Nutrient Deprivation, Cancer: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants as well as Nutrition and Diet in Maternal Diabetes: An Evidence-Based Approach.
Vinood B. Patel, BSc, PhD, FRSC, is currently Reader in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Westminster. In 2014 Dr Patel was elected as a Fellow to The RoyalSociety of Chemistry. Dr Patel graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a degree in Pharmacology and completed his PhD in protein metabolism from King’s College London in 1997. His postdoctoral work was carried out at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical School, NC, USA studying structural-functional alterations to mitochondrial ribosomes, where he developed novel techniques to characterize their biophysical properties. Research is being undertaken to study the role of nutrients, antioxidants, phytochemicals, iron, alcohol and fatty acids in the pathophysiology of disease. Other areas of interest are identifying new biomarkers that can be used for the diagnosis and prognosis of disease and understanding mitochondrial oxidative stress. Dr Patel is a nationally and internationally recognized researcher and has several edited biomedical books related to nutrition. These books include The Handbook of Nutrition, Diet, and Epigenetics and Handbook of Famine, Starvation, and Nutrient Deprivation, Cancer: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants as well as Nutrition and Diet in Maternal Diabetes: An Evidence-Based Approach.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Public Health Nutrition
Book Subtitle: International, National, and Regional Perspectives
Editors: Victor R. Preedy, Vinood B. Patel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32047-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Living Reference Medicine, Reference Module Medicine
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32047-7
Number of Illustrations: 375 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nutrition, Public Health, Food Science, Health Policy, Social Sciences, general, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Keywords
- nutrition and public health
- food (in)security
- food supply
- food safety
- micronutrients and macronutrients
- vitamins and minerals
- dietary practices
- overnutrition and obesity
- undernutrition and starvation
- malnutrition
- nutrition-related diseases
- food and nutrition policies
- feeding practices
- social and health inequalities
- carbohydrates, protein, fats
- food advertising
- health education and health promotion
- case studies
- COVID-19 pandemic