Nutritional Ecology and Human Health

Annual Review of Nutrition

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 603-626

  Raubenheimer, David ^a   Simpson, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecology; Evolution; Human nutrition; Nutritional geometry

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; FAT; NITROGEN; OLIVE OIL; PROTEIN; RETINOL; SUGAR; TRACE ELEMENT;

AGING; APPETITE; BREAD; BUTTER; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CHEWING GUM; DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH; HUMAN; MACRONUTRIENT; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EVOLUTION; FOOD INTAKE; HISTORY; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; APPETITE REGULATION; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEALTH TRANSITION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84979071551     PISSN: 01999885     EISSN: 15454312     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-nutr-071715-051118     Document Type: Review

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