The Nature of Nutrition : A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity.
Title:
The Nature of Nutrition : A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity.
Author:
Simpson, Stephen J.
ISBN:
9781400842803
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1 online resource (220 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE: NUTRITION AND DARWIN'S ENTANGLED BANK -- 1.1 Nutrition Touches and Links All Living Things -- 1.2 Nutrition Is Complex -- 1.3 Dealing with Nutritional Complexity: Enough but Not Too Much -- 1.4 Charting the Void between Nutritional Detail and Generality: The Geometric Framework -- TWO: THE GEOMETRY OF NUTRITION -- 2.1 The Geometric Framework: Basic Theory -- 2.2 The Geometric Framework in Practice -- 2.3 Conclusions -- THREE: MECHANISMS OF NUTRITIONAL REGULATION -- 3.1 How to Defend an Intake Target -- 3.2 Postingestive Regulation -- 3.3 Conclusions -- FOUR: LESS FOOD, LESS SEX, LIVE LONGER? -- 4.1 How Does Macronutrient Balance Affect Life Span? -- 4.2 Less Sex, Live Longer? -- 4.3 Conclusions -- FIVE: BEYOND NUTRIENTS -- 5.1 The Distinction between Nutrients and Toxins -- 5.2 Self-medication and Ecological Immunology: The Distinction between Nutrients and Medicines -- 5.3 Toxins and Nutrients Interact -- 5.4 Conclusions -- SIX: MOVING TARGETS -- 6.1 Moving Targets in the Short Term -- 6.2 Moving Targets in Developmental Time -- 6.3 From Parents to Offspring-Epigenetics -- 6.4 Evolving Targets -- 6.5 Evolving Rules of Compromise: Nutrient Specialists and Generalists -- 6.6 Evolving Postingestive Responses -- 6.7 Conclusions -- SEVEN: FROM INDIVIDUALS TO POPULATIONS AND SOCIETIES -- 7.1 Cannibal Mormon Crickets -- 7.2 Locusts Are Cannibals Too -- 7.3 Communal Nutrition in Ants -- 7.4 The Blob -- 7.5 Conclusions -- EIGHT: HOW DOES NUTRITION STRUCTURE ECOSYSTEMS? -- 8.1 From Individual Fitness to Population Growth Rates -- 8.2 Interactions among Organisms and the Environment -- 8.3 Do Predators Regulate Nutrient Intake? -- 8.4 The Nutritional Geometry of Food Webs -- 8.5 The Nutritional Niche -- 8.6 Agent-Based Modeling of Nutritional Interactions: From Individuals to Ecosystems.
8.7 Conclusions -- NINE: APPLIED NUTRITION -- 9.1 Domestication -- 9.2 Wildlife Conservation -- 9.3 Conclusions -- TEN: THE GEOMETRY OF HUMAN NUTRITION -- 10.1 The Modern Human Nutritional Dilemma -- 10.2 Do Humans Regulate to an Intake Target? -- 10.3 What Is the Human Rule of Compromise? -- 10.4 What Are the Implications of Protein Leverage? -- 10.5 How Do Humans Deal with Nutrient Excesses? -- 10.6 Conclusions -- ELEVEN: PERSPECTIVES -- 11.1 Expanding GF into Further Dimensions of Nutrition -- 11.2 GF and "Omics" -- 11.3 Nutritional Epigenetics and Early-Life Prevention of Metabolic Disease -- 11.4 Human Obesity -- 11.5 Nutritional Immunology -- 11.6 Modeling Nutritional Interactions: From Individuals to Ecosystems -- 11.7 Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for nutrients determines whether wild animals thrive, how populations evolve and decline, and how ecological communities are structured. The Nature of Nutrition is the first book to address nutrition's enormously complex role in biology, both at the level of individual organisms and in their broader ecological interactions. Stephen Simpson and David Raubenheimer provide a comprehensive theoretical approach to the analysis of nutrition--the Geometric Framework. They show how it can help us to understand the links between nutrition and the biology of individual animals, including the physiological mechanisms that determine the nutritional interactions of the animal with its environment, and the consequences of these interactions in terms of health, immune responses, and lifespan. Simpson and Raubenheimer explain how these effects translate into the collective behavior of groups and societies, and in turn influence food webs and the structure of ecosystems. Then they demonstrate how the Geometric Framework can be used to tackle issues in applied nutrition, such as the problem of optimizing diets for livestock and endangered species, and how it can also help to address the epidemic of human obesity and metabolic disease Drawing on a wealth of examples from slime molds to humans, The Nature of Nutrition has important applications in ecology, evolution, and physiology, and offers promising solutions for human health, conservation, and agriculture.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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