Title | Nutritional Intervention in the Aging Process [electronic resource] / edited by H. James Armbrecht, John M. Prendergast, Rodney M. Coe |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1984 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5272-6 |
Descript | 343p. online resource |
I. Effect of Aging on Nutrition -- 1. Sociological Factors that Influence Nutritional Status in the Elderly -- 2. Age-related Changes in Taste and Smell that Affect Nutritional Adequacy -- 3. Impact of Aging on Protein Metabolism -- 4. Atherosclerosis and Plasma Lipid Transport with Aging -- 5. Changes in Calcium and Vitamin D Metabolism with Age -- II. Effect of Nutrition on AgingโLength of Life -- 6. Dietary Restriction and Metabolism and Disease -- 7. Dietary Restriction and Biological Variables -- 8. Aging in the Food-restricted Rat: Body Temperature, Receptor Function, and Morphologie Changes in the Brain -- 9. Dietary Antioxidants, Membrane Lipids, and Aging -- 10. Membrane Changes Associated with Alcohol Use and Aging: Possibilities for Nutritional Intervention -- III. Effect of Nutrition on AgingโFunctional Ability -- 11. Calcium Supplementation and Osteoporosis -- 12. Carbohydrate Metabolism and Diabetes in the Aged -- 13. Nutritional Intervention During Immunologic Aging: Past and Present -- 14. Effects of Nutritional Factors on Memory Function -- 15. Modifying the Effects of Environmental Chemicals by Dietary Manipulation: A Search for Hemeprotein Peroxidase Inhibitors -- IV. Nutrition and AgingโEvaluation and Management -- 16. Nutritional Evaluation of the Institutionalized Elderly -- 17. Nutritional Management of the Elderly -- 18. Problems in Nutritional Management of the Elderly -- 19. Interrelationship of Exercise and Nutrition in the Elderly