Nutrigenomics

• Main Authors: Carlberg, Carsten (Author), Ulven, Stine Marie (Author), Molnár, Ferdinand (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Molecular biology.; Clinical nutrition.; Biomedicine.; Molecular Medicine.; Clinical Nutrition.

The fascinating area of Nutrigenomics describes this daily communication between diet, food and nutrients, their metabolites and our genome. This book describes how nutrition shapes human evolution and demonstrates its consequences for our susceptibility to diseases, such as diabetes and atheroscler...

Table of Contents:

• Nutrition and common diseases
• Human genomic variation
• Sensing nutrition
• Nutrigenomics: Adapting the human genome to dietary changes and personalized nutrition
• Nutritional epigenomics
• Nutritional signaling and aging
• Chronic inflammation and metabolic stress
• Obesity
• Glucose homeostasis, insulin resistance and β cell failure
• Diabetes
• Hypertension, atherosclerosis and dyslipidemias
• Metabolic syndrome. .