LEADER 04594nam 2200829 a 450 001 9910451593703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-49403-4 010 $a9786613589262 010 $a1-4008-4280-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400842803 035 $a(CKB)2550000000102452 035 $a(EBL)902773 035 $a(OCoLC)793207343 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000646906 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11383127 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646906 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10593256 035 $a(PQKB)11758415 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC902773 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000515137 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37144 035 $a(DE-B1597)447595 035 $a(OCoLC)979758311 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400842803 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL902773 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10556462 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358926 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000102452 100 $a20111109d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe nature of nutrition$b[electronic resource] $ea unifying framework from animal adaptation to human obesity /$fStephen J. Simpson and David Raubenheimer 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-14565-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tOne. Nutrition and Darwin's Entangled Bank -- $tTwo. The Geometry of Nutrition -- $tThree. Mechanisms of Nutritional Regulation -- $tFour. Less Food, Less Sex, Live Longer? -- $tFive. Beyond Nutrients -- $tSix. Moving Targets -- $tSeven. From Individuals to Populations and Societies -- $tEight. How Does Nutrition Structure Ecosystems? -- $tNine. Applied Nutrition -- $tTen. The Geometry of Human Nutrition -- $tEleven. Perspectives -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $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. 606 $aNutrition 606 $aNutrition$xResearch 606 $aAnimal nutrition 606 $aAdaptation (Physiology) 606 $aBioenergetics 606 $aPhysiology, Experimental 606 $aObesity 606 $aEnergy metabolism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNutrition. 615 0$aNutrition$xResearch. 615 0$aAnimal nutrition. 615 0$aAdaptation (Physiology) 615 0$aBioenergetics. 615 0$aPhysiology, Experimental. 615 0$aObesity. 615 0$aEnergy metabolism. 676 $a612.3 686 $aZE 40000$2rvk 700 $aSimpson$b Stephen J$047524 701 $aRaubenheimer$b David$f1960-$01040989 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451593703321 996 $aThe nature of nutrition$92464236 997 $aUNINA