000449347 000__ 03420cam\a2200469\a\4500 000449347 001__ 449347 000449347 005__ 20210513155107.0 000449347 006__ m\\\\\\\\d\\\\\\\\ 000449347 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000449347 008__ 120924s2012\\\\njua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000449347 010__ $$z 2011042321 000449347 019__ $$a794493874 000449347 020__ $$a9781400842803 (electronic bk.) 000449347 020__ $$z9780691145655 000449347 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn793207343 000449347 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10556462 000449347 035__ $$a449347 000449347 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000449347 05014 $$aQP141$$b.S534 2012eb 000449347 08204 $$a612.3$$223 000449347 1001_ $$aSimpson, Stephen J. 000449347 24514 $$aThe nature of nutrition$$h[electronic resource] :$$ba unifying framework from animal adaptation to human obesity /$$cStephen J. Simpson and David Raubenheimer. 000449347 260__ $$aPrinceton :$$bPrinceton University Press,$$c2012. 000449347 300__ $$a1 online resource (vii, 239 p.) :$$bill. 000449347 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000449347 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000449347 520__ $$aNutrition 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. 000449347 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000449347 650_0 $$aNutrition. 000449347 650_0 $$aNutrition$$xResearch. 000449347 650_0 $$aAnimal nutrition. 000449347 650_0 $$aAdaptation (Physiology) 000449347 650_0 $$aBioenergetics. 000449347 650_0 $$aPhysiology, Experimental. 000449347 650_0 $$aObesity. 000449347 650_0 $$aEnergy metabolism. 000449347 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 000449347 7001_ $$aRaubenheimer, David,$$d1960- 000449347 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aSimpson, Stephen J.$$tNature of nutrition.$$dPrinceton : Princeton University Press, 2012$$z9780691145655$$w(DLC) 2011042321$$w(OCoLC)760293735 000449347 8520_ $$bacq 000449347 85280 $$bebk$$hEbrary 000449347 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=902773$$zOnline Access 000449347 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:449347$$pGLOBAL_SET 000449347 980__ $$aEBOOK 000449347 980__ $$aBIB 000449347 982__ $$aEbook 000449347 983__ $$aOnline