This volume has been significantly expanded to cover the new important, growing areas. In addition to a chapter on evaluation that was included in the previous volume, we have added three new ch…
In the Surgeon General’s Report: A Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Overweight and Obesity, we referred to the “epidemic” of overweight and obesity. This was an unus…
Knowledge about vitamin E has expanded so rapidly over the past few decades that it is difficult for anyone to keep up with even a few of the general areas pertinent to the vitamin—chemistry, n…
As a medical doctor focusing on metabolism and nutrition, colleagues ask me where they can find reliable information on vitamins and minerals and their application in medicine. Although an abunda…
In those simple words described Friedrich, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation, around 1240 the job of a scientist. He was an avid hunter who particularly loved hunting with birds o…
Overall, the text has been updated with new and available information. We removed some chapters and added new ones. Chapter 2 includes a brief discussion of sphingolipids, and Chapter 31 includes…
Preface The first edition of this book volume was published in 1992, and the second edition in 1999 by Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. Since then, volumes of new information on the fatty acids i…
Preface Lipids contribute very significantly to the sensory and nutritional properties of most kinds of foods, even if their content is not high. Nature has created a large number of lipids th…