Like its predecessors, the new and updated edition of advanced nutrition: macronutrients, micronutrients, and metabolism is an essential textbook for advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students studying human nutrition.This book draws on inter-related sciences including biochemistry, genetics, and physiology to provide a full understanding of nutrition science. This third edition describes the chemistry, absorption, use and excretion of each of the essential nutrients. There is comprehensive coverage of nutrient-nutrient interactions and both macro and micronutrients.The book places strong emphasis on how nutrient-genetic interactions function with respect to disease development. The new edition includes some of the most recent descriptions of the roles nutrients play in the expression of genetic traits for a variety of degenerative diseases. It includes a new chapter explains the function of microorganisms in the maintenance and development of chronic degenerative disease.Features:chapters address clinical conditions such as obesity, starvation, hyperlipemia, renal disease and organ function.