by NilanjanaMaulik (Editor), Gautam Maulik (Editor)
As nutrition research is shifting its focus from epidemiology and physiology to effects of nutrients at the molecular level, a uniquely tailored diet that corresponds to the demands of our genetic signature is emerging as an indispensable need. Using high-throughput genomic tools, nutrigenomics unravels the influence of micro- and macronutrients as potent dietary signals regulating metabolic pathways and unmasks how susceptible genotypes are predisposed to diet-related diseases.
Selected topics from this field have been covered in some books, but no other comprehensive text on epigenetics, nutrition, and human health and disease is available, until now. This book illustrates nutrition's influence on epigenetic inheritance and the mechanisms underlying the modification of the metabolic imprint of an individual. This enriched understanding of nutrigenomics can be applied to master a tailored diet that can alleviate imprinted metabolic syndromes. Specifically, the book focuses on:
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 442
Edition: 1
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 01 Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 1439804796
ISBN 13: 9781439804797
This monograph paints a broad-ranging and exciting future for the study of nutritional epigenetics.
--Roy J. Shephard, University of Toronto, Canada, in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 2011