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UNINA9910163885503321 |
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Yager Susan |
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The Hundred Year Diet : America's Voracious Appetite for Losing Weight |
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Gordonsville : , : Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale, , 2010 |
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1 online resource (333 pages) |
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Weight loss--United States--History |
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A lively cultural history of the American weight loss industry that explores the origins of our obsession with dietingAs a nation battling an obesity epidemic, we spend more than 35 billion annually on diets and diet regimens. Our weight is making us sick, unhappy, and bigger than ever, and we are willing to hand over our hard-earned money to fix the problem. But most people don't know that the diet industry started cashing in long before the advent of the Whopper.The Hundred Year Diet is the story of America's preoccupation with diet, deprivation, and weight loss. From the groundbreaking measurement of the calorie to World War I voluntary rationing to the Atkins craze, Susan Yager traces our relationship with food, weight, culture, science, and religion. She reveals that long before America became a Fast Food Nation or even a Weight Loss Nation, it was an Ascetic Nation, valuing convenience over culinary delight.Learn how one of the best-fed countries in the world developed some of the worst nutritional habits, and why the respect for food evident in other nations is lacking in America. Filled with food history, cultural trivia, and unforgettable personalities, The Hundred Year Diet sheds new light on an overlooked piece of our weight loss puzzle: its origins. |
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UNINA9911019792103321 |
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Systems biology and synthetic biology / / edited by Pengcheng Fu, Sven Panke |
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Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2009 |
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9786612280122 |
9781282280120 |
1282280120 |
9780470437988 |
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1 online resource (674 p.) |
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WH 2000 |
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Biotechnology |
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Biological systems |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; CONTENTS; Foreword; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Basics of Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering, and Metabolic Engineering; 3 High-Throughput Technologies and Functional Genomics; 4 Genomic Signal Processing of DNA Microarray Data for the Enhanced Prediction of Axillary Lymph Node Status of Breast Cancer Tumors; 5 Recombinant Genomes: Novel Resources for Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology; 6 In silico Genome-Scale Metabolic Models: The Constraint-Based Approach and its Applications |
7 Mathematical Modeling of Genetic Regulatory Networks: Stress |
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Responses in Escherichia coli8 Synthetic Life: Ethobricks for a New Biology; 9 Yeast as a Prototype for Systems Biology; 10 Construction and Applications of Genome-Scale in silico Metabolic Models for Strain Improvement; 11 Synthetic Biology: Putting Engineering into Bioengineering; 12 Rationales of Gene Design and de novo Gene Construction; 13 Self-Replication in Chemistry and Biology; 14 The Synthetic Approach for Regulatory and Metabolic Circuits; 15 Synthetic Gene Networks |
16 The Theory of Biological Robustness and its Implication to Cancer17 Nucleic Acid Engineering; 18 Potential Applications of Synthetic Biology in Marine Microbial Functional Ecology and Biotechnology; 19 On Fundamental Implications of Systems and Synthetic Biology; 20 Outstanding Issues in Systems and Synthetic Biology; Index |
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The genomic revolution has opened up systematic investigations and engineering designs for various life forms. Systems biology and synthetic biology are emerging as two complementary approaches, which embody the breakthrough in biology and invite application of engineering principles. Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology emphasizes the similarity between biology and engineering at the system level, which is important for applying systems and engineering theories to biology problems. This book demonstrates to students, researchers, and industry that systems biology relies on synthetic biology |
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