Sustainable Food and Agriculture

Sustainable Food and Agriculture
Author: Clayton Campanhola
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128121351

Sustainable Food and Agriculture: An Integrated Approach is the first book to look at the imminent threats to sustainable food security through a cross-sectoral lens. As the world faces food supply challenges posed by the declining growth rate of agricultural productivity, accelerated deterioration of quantity and quality of natural resources that underpin agricultural production, climate change, and hunger, poverty and malnutrition, a multi-faced understanding is key to identifying practical solutions. This book gives stakeholders a common vision, concept and methods that are based on proven and widely agreed strategies for continuous improvement in sustainability at different scales. While information on policies and technologies that would enhance productivity and sustainability of individual agricultural sectors is available to some extent, literature is practically devoid of information and experiences for countries and communities considering a comprehensive approach (cross-sectoral policies, strategies and technologies) to SFA. This book is the first effort to fill this gap, providing information on proven options for enhancing productivity, profitability, equity and environmental sustainability of individual sectors and, in addition, how to identify opportunities and actions for exploiting cross-sectoral synergies. - Provides proven options of integrated technologies and policies, helping new programs identify appropriate existing programs - Presents mechanisms/tools for balancing trade-offs and proposes indicators to facilitate decision-making and progress measurement - Positions a comprehensive and informed review of issues in one place for effective education, comparison and evaluation

Nutrition, Exercise, and Behavior

Nutrition, Exercise, and Behavior
Author: Liane Summerfield
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2001
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

This text presents the basic principles of weight management and examines the role that nutrition and physical fitness play in weight control. The text includes detailed coverage of assessment techniques, behavioral and non-behavioral treatment approaches, and prevention strategies.

Nutrition, Exercise, and Behavior: An Integrated Approach to Weight Management

Nutrition, Exercise, and Behavior: An Integrated Approach to Weight Management
Author: Liane M. Summerfield
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781305258778

NUTRITION, EXERCISE, AND BEHAVIOR: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO WEIGHT MANAGEMENT is designed for students and professionals in a variety of disciplines who need to understand the basic principles of weight management. It incorporates a multifaceted, public health approach to issues of weight management examining not only individual factors, but societal, family, and environmental factors contributing to eating disorders and overweight/obesity. The text includes detailed coverage of assessment techniques, behavioral and non-behavioral treatment approaches, and prevention strategies. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Integrative Wildlife Nutrition

Integrative Wildlife Nutrition
Author: Perry S. Barboza
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2008-12-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540878858

Nutrition spans a wide range of mechanisms from acquisition of food to digestion, absorption and retention of energy substrates, water and other nutrients. Nutritional principles have been applied to improving individual health, athletic performance and longevity of humans and of their companion animals, and to maximizing agricultural efficiency by manipulating reproduction or growth of tissues such as muscle, hair or milk in livestock. Comparative nutrition borrows from these tra- tional approaches by applying similar techniques to studies of ecology and physiology of wildlife. Comparative approaches to nutrition integrate several levels of organization because the acquisition and flow of energy and nutrients connect individuals to populations, populations to communities, and communities to ecosystems. Integrative Wildlife Nutrition connects behavioral, morphological and biochemical traits of animals to the life history of species and thus the dynamics of populations. An integrated approach to nutrition provides a practical framework for understanding the interactions between food resources and wildlife popu- tions and for managing the harvest of abundant species and the conservation of threatened populations. This book is for students and professionals in animal physiology and ecology, conservation biology and wildlife management. It is based on our lectures, dem- strations and practical classes taught in the USA, Canada and Australia over the last three decades. Instructors can use Integrative Wildlife Nutrition as a text in wildlife and conservation biology programs, and as a reference source for related courses in wildlife ecology.

How to Teach Nutrition to Kids

How to Teach Nutrition to Kids
Author: Connie Liakos Evers
Publisher: Twenty Four Carrot Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9780964797017

Create a new nutrition culture for kids! Completely revised and updated, this resource promotes positive attitudes about food, fitness and body image. Features hundreds of fun, hands-on nutrition education activities aimed at children ages 6-12.

Nutrition

Nutrition
Author: Ruth L. Pike
Publisher:
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1967
Genre:
ISBN:

Genetics

Genetics
Author: Ruth M. DeBusk
Publisher: American Dietetic Associati
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2003
Genre: Diet therapy
ISBN: 0880911956

Discover how the Human Genome Project will soon affect dietetic practice in this fascinating new reference. Medical nutrition therapy, nutrition and food service, drug therapy, gene therapy, gene diagnostics, and social and public nutrition policies will all feel the impact of this on-going research. Each chapter in the Genetic Connection begins to answer the question of how these advances will affect dietetics. Prepare for the future with this exciting new title.

An Integrated Approach to New Food Product Development

An Integrated Approach to New Food Product Development
Author: Howard R. Moskowitz
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2009-06-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1420065556

Today's rapidly evolving consumer frequently changes eating habits, tastes, and diet. Therefore, to secure financial solvency, food and beverage companies must continually define, develop, and market new products. This comprehensive volume integrates all aspects of the physical food and beverage product development cycle and provides perspectives on how to optimize each component of the new product equation in the food industry. It discusses both the technical and the marketing sides, emphasizing the necessity for a combined focus of both the product/process and the people/market. The inclusion of case studies makes the book suitable for a classroom text or a professional reference.

Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics

Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics
Author: Joan Webster-Gandy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 842
Release: 2012
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199585822

Fully updated, the Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics, second edition is a practical quick-reference guide to nutrition in the prevention and treatment of disease and the maintenance of good health.

Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries

Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries
Author: Richard David Semba
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2001-04-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1592592252

The Nutrition and Health series of books have, as an overriding mission, to provide health professionals with texts that are considered essential because each includes: 1) a synthesis of the state of the science, 2) timely, in-depth reviews by the leading researchers in their respective fields, 3) extensive, up-to-date fully annotated reference lists, 4) a detailed index, 5) relevant tables and figures, 6) identification of paradigm shifts and the consequences, 7) virtually no overlap of information between chapters, but targeted, inter-chapter referrals, 8) suggestions of areas for future research and 9) balanced, data driven answers to patient /health professionals questions which are based upon the total ity of evidence rather than the findings of any single study. The series volumes are not the outcome of a symposium. Rather, each editor has the potential to examine a chosen area with a broad perspective, both in subject matter as well as in the choice of chapter authors. The international perspective, especially with regard to public health initiatives, is emphasized where appropriate. The editors, whose trainings are both research and practice oriented, have the opportunity to develop a primary objec tive for their book; define the scope and focus, and then invite the leading authorities from around the world to be part of their initiative. The authors are encouraged to provide an overview of the field, discuss their own research and relate the research findings to potential human health consequences.