Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate


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Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate The Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets for healthy people. This new report, the sixth in a series of reports presenting dietary reference values for the intakes of nutrients by Americans and Canadians, establishes nutrient recommendations on water, potassium, and salt for health maintenance and the reduction of chronic disease risk. Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate discusses in detail the role of water, potassium, salt, chloride, and sulfate in human physiology and health. The major findings in this book include the establishment of Adequate Intakes for total water (drinking water, beverages, and food), potassium, sodium, and chloride and the establishment of Tolerable Upper Intake levels for sodium and chloride. The book makes research recommendations for information needed to advance the understanding of human requirements for water and electrolytes, as well as adverse effects associated with the intake of excessive amounts of water, sodium, chloride, potassium, and sulfate. This book will be an invaluable reference for nutritionists, nutrition researchers, and food manufacturers.




Eating, Drinking: Surviving


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This publication addresses the global challenges of food and water security in a rapidly changing and complex world. The essays highlight the links between bio-physical and socio-cultural processes, making connections between local and global scales, and focusing on the everyday practices of eating and drinking, essential for human survival. Written by international experts, each contribution is research-based but accessible to the general public.







Drinking Water and Health,


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The most recent volume in the Drinking Water and Health series contains the results of a two-part study on the toxicity of drinking water contaminants. The first part examines current practices in risk assessment, identifies new noncancerous toxic responses to chemicals found in drinking water, and discusses the use of pharmacokinetic data to estimate the delivered dose and response. The second part of the book provides risk assessments for 14 specific compounds, 9 presented here for the first time.




Drowning in 8 Glasses


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Ever wonder how to drink while dieting? Millions of people in the United States are frantically trying to drink more water in an attempt to lose weight and be more healthy. Yet despite following the advice of drinking 8 x 8, their weight goes up and they may actually be harming their overall health.Conditions like adrenal insufficiency or adrenal fatigue are common in our fast-paced world and drinking more water can lead to water retention, coma and even death. If you are one of these people who wonders why drinking more water has made you gain weight, caused you to get more wrinkles and feel generally lousy, then Drowning in 8 Glasses: 7 Myths about Water Revealed just may hold the answers you have been seeking.Drowning in 8 Glasses dispels false notions about water instilled within popular culture norms while providing nutrition-based reasoning and advice. Readers will learn that most conventional advice about consuming water may prove more harmful than helpful in this quick, but highly enlightening exposé on water.* Does drinking water before and after a meal really assist your dieting efforts?* Are specialty water products actually providing all of the beneficial properties listed on the bottle?* What's really in those "clean and pure" bottled water products and why does it matter?Find the answer to all of these questions and more in Certified Nutritionist Adrienne Hew's latest installment on nutrition, Drowning in 8 Glasses: 7 Myths about Water Revealed. You've already read all the books touting the benefits of drinking more water. This book will put all that information into perspective. After reading this book, you will not look at water the same again.




Minerals latu sensu and Human Health


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This volume provides a comprehensive academic review of both positive and negative effects of minerals on human health and quality of life. The book adopts the concept of mineral latu sensu (mineral l.s.), which encompasses a broad spectrum of natural, inorganic, solid, and crystalline, of natural and inorganic chemical elements (metals and metalloids), of modified natural minerals, of biominerals, and of syntetic minerals, all products that branch across the disciplines of earth, soil, environmental, materials, nutrition, and health sciences. Using this broad framework, the authors are able to provide a multidisciplinary assessment on many types of minerals which can be essential, beneficial and hazardous to human health, covering applications in medical geology, medical hydrology or balneotherapy, pharmacology, chemistry, nutrition, and biophysics. The book performs historical analyses of the uses of minerals for therapeutic and cosmetic purposes to better understand current trends and developments in mineral research and human health. The book will be of interest to students, public health officials, environmental agencies and researchers from various disciplines, as well as scientific societies and organizations focusing on medical geology, health resort medicine (crenotherapy, hydrotherapy and climatotherapy), and on pharmaceutical, cosmetic and biomedical applications.




Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics


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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.




Mineral Water


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Mineral Water: From Basic Research to Clinical Applications, written by a multi-disciplinary group of educators, researchers and medical doctors, gathers a timely review on the effects of mineral waters upon several aspects of human biology and pathophysiology, as it gives an overview of how mineral waters may provide a positive impact on different settings, namely health promotion and disease prevention as well as rehabilitation and therapy. A major advantage of this book is the gathering of up-to-date information on the benefits, and associated mechanisms, of mineral waters through different routes of internal and external exposure. Concepts and classifications of mineral waters are disclosed. The relevance of spa therapies in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, otorhinolaryngology, rheumatic diseases and dermatology is addressed. The mitigation of diet-induced acid load by mineral waters consumption and its relevance for bone health is discussed. The importance of mineral waters consumption against metabolic dysfunction through gut microbiota modulation is argued. Modulation of membrane transporters by mineral water is reviewed. Mineral Water: From Basic Research to Clinical Applications aims to target health professionals (medical doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, nutritionists and dietitians), educators and students (in the aforementioned subject areas) as well as health science researchers (biochemists, biologists and pharmacists), beverage companies and policy-makers.




Proceedings of 21st European Nutrition and Dietetics Conference 2018


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June 11-13, 2018 Dublin, Ireland key topics : Clinical Nutrition, Sports Nutrition & Kinesiology, Plant Nutrition, Animal and Diary Nutrition, Malnutrition or Nutritional Deficiency, Nutrient related Chronic diseases, Nutrition and Cancer, Nutrition in Pregnancy and Lactation, Paediatric Nutrition, Nutrition During Adolescence, Diet in Obesity and Underweight, Diet for Gastrointestinal Diseases, Nutrition and Psychology, Nutrition, Health and Choice, Current Research in Nutrition and Dietetics, Food and Nutrition, Nutritional Epidemiology, Food Science & Chemistry, Public Health Research, Diet & Appetite, Vitaminology & Lipidology, Nutritional Neuroscience & Eating Disorders, Renal Nutrition & Metabolism, Nutraceuticals & Medicinal Foods, Holistic & Integrative Nutrition, Food & Nutritional Immunology, Food & Nutritional Toxicology, Food & Nutritional Metabolomics, Protein Science, Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity,