During the past 25 years, nutrition has been challenged in an unprecedented way to reconsider its basic tenets. These challenges have come from research in fields like environmental medicine, clinical ecology, toxicology, molecular biology, and genetics. Environmental Nutrition is the first reference work to respond to these challenges by providing a completely new framework for understanding nourishment. In addition, the book provides in-depth discussions of topical issues like food irradiation, use of food additives, use of pesticides, packaging, organic farming, sustainable agriculture, and deforestation. Environmental Nutrition: Understanding the Link between Environment, Food Quality, and Disease is designed to meet the needs of the general as well as the scientifically-trained reader by presenting information at several different levels of description. For general readers interested in facts and figures related to nutrition and the environment, the book provides historical and current affairs information and addresses ideas that help explain shifting patterns in cultural events. For scientifically-trained readers, the book provides explanation on a technical and biochemical level. Chemical drawings and diagrams are used to show key molecular events. Clinicians reading the book will also benefit from detailed discussion of chronic health problems created by toxic exposure and from explanation of disease processes at an underlying metabolic level. This affordably-priced text can serve as an outstanding sourcebook of information. It can also act as an effective teaching tool at the graduate or undergraduate level.
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