Textbook of Nutritional Biochemistry, 1st ed. 2023

This textbook for undergraduate students aims at providing an in-depth understanding of the relationship between diet, nutrients, health, diseases, and drug treatment. The book presents a comprehensive but detailed view of the field of Nutritional Biochemistry; balancing the historical with contemporary findings, the descriptive with the experimental, structure with function as well as the mechanistic and the clinical aspects of any particular nutrient. Though the major emphasis of the book is on Nutritional Biochemistry, the book also attempts to provide an insight into other related and relevant areas. Amongst the topics that are covered are: nutraceuticals, food, and nutrient interactions; the newly emerging field of the human microbiome, its interdependence on diet and human health as well as the public health concerns which is a looming burden of non-communicable diseases. Each chapter begins with an insight into the history of discovery and structure of the nutrient, its absorption, and metabolism, physiological functions, ending with diseases associated with nutrient deficiency/toxicity along with a clinical perspective. Apart from this, the book emphasizes the biochemical basis of physiological responses and correlates the same with symptoms identifying the pathophysiology. This textbook caters to students of undergraduate courses like Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Life Sciences, Home Science; Nutrition and Dietetics, Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, and Nursing.

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Chapter 1_Introduction to Basic biochemistry.- Chapter 2 _Understanding Nutrition.- Chapter 3_Water.- Chapter 4 _Digestion and Assimilation of Nutrients.- Chapter 5_Understanding Energy Balance.- Chapter 6 _Dietary carbohydrates and health.- Chapter 7_Dietary Proteins and health.- Chapter 8_ Dietary Lipids and health.- Chapter 9_ Fat Soluble Vitamins.- Chapter 10 _Water soluble Vitamins.- Chapter 11 _Mineral Nutrition and Macrominerals.- Chapter 12 _Micro minerals and toxic heavy metals.- Chapter 13 _Food-Drug Interactions and Nutraceuticals.- Chapter 14 _Nutrition Assessment.- Chapter 15 _ Nutritional Disorders.- Chapter 16_Diet Plans and Health.

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Prof. Darshan Malik received her Ph.D. from College of Basic Sciences, &Humanities, CCS Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar and is currently teaching at the Department of Biochemistry, Shivaji College, University of Delhi, India. She has been an active academician for the past 3 decades and has strived for all round excellence of the students and the institution. She has a distinguished record in both teaching and research and has been conferred with various prestigious awards notably “Meritorious college lecturer award” in 2016 by Directorate of Higher Education, Govt. of NCT, Delhi and “Bharat Vikas Award” by the Institute of Reliance at Bhubaneswar, India in 2017 for her work on bioremediation. She was awarded Erasmus Mundus Fellowship in 2009 by Norwegian University of Science & Technology to work on phospholipid signalling. Prof. Malik is an active researcher in the area of public health biology, lifestyle based disorders and bioremediation technology with more than 25 publications in international/ national peer reviewed journals. She has mentored number of students and supervised a Ph.D. student. She has co-authored and co-edited several books and book chapters. Prof. Malik is a member of the editorial board of several national journals, a scientific magazine and various scientific bodies.