(Ebook) The Vitamins: Fundamental Aspects in Nutrition and Health by Gerald F. Combs Jr., James P. McClung ISBN 9780323904735, 0323904734

(Ebook) The Vitamins: Fundamental Aspects in Nutrition and Health by Gerald F. Combs Jr., James P. McClung ISBN 9780323904735, 0323904734

Understanding the vitamins is fundamental to understanding
nutrition. The history of their discovery and the continuing
elucidation of their roles in health is the history of the
emergence of nutritional science out of the areas of physiology,
biochemistry, medicine, and agriculture. The practical
application of that knowledge draws on food science,
medicine, public health, economics, sociology, and agriculture.
Capturing the understanding and contemporary relevance
that was produced by that history and available for
contemporary application is a formidable challenge. It is also
a privilege. For us as authors, that task has involved years of
reviewing thousands of publications, and months of looking
for ways to present that complex information clearly and
with neither oversimplification nor overstatement.
Producing this sixth edition of “The Vitamins”benefitted from the combined perspectives of an academic
who conceived the project more than 30 years ago and used
the book in his teaching at Cornell University, with those of
research scientist who studied the first first edition as a
graduate student at the University of New Hampshire and,
then, later editions as a student and teaching assistant at
Cornell University. We believe that the dynamic relationship
we have enjoyed for many yearsdas student/mentor,
colleagues, friends, and coauthorsdhas facilitated our
producing the most complete and up-to-date edition of this
text, such that it will be useful as a contemporary reference
as well as a teaching/learning aid.