Shalini Chandrasekaran ¹, Parvathi Easwaran ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Food Service Management and Dietetics, Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore - 641 043, IN

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The importance of proper nutrition and diet to the overall fitness and health of the individual throughout the life span is well recognised. Health and sports are closely related. Nutrition assumes a vital role in the field of sports because it plays an important role in maintaining the individuals physical fitness. An athlete who is involved in muscular activities should have optimum nutrition for good physical performance. The optimum diet providing all the essential nutrients for the athlete must be event specific and suited to their individual needs to maintain optimum body build and composition. Of the essential nutrients the macro-nutrients play a vital role as they provide fuel to the body for their strenuous physical activity.

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Beliefs about the effects of food on behavior have existed for ages, but systematic research studies in this field have been initiated only in the recent past. In many ancient cultures mention has been made about the magical qualities of certain foods which bestow special powers such as strength and courage. Beliefs related to the influence of food on behavior still exist, such as sweet foods bestowing pleasant disposition as against bad temper being contributed by hot spicy foods. These unsubstantiated beliefs are of considerable concern from the nutritional stand point.

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Economic and technological advancements do not guarantee complete eradication of nutritional problems. A wide range of nutritional problems do exist in the modern society. This book brings forth the details on the affluent nutritional problems with special reference to United Kingdom. Affluent nutritional problems such as obesity, diet and coronary disease and nutritional deficiencies in the elderly are dealt with recent statistics and relevant illustrations Dietary fibre as the author points out is enjoying a renaissance in human nutrition.

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This is an era when Food Science and Human Nutrition have gained great momentum and have acquired an important place at all levels of education.

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This book brings out the proceedings of the workshop on "Adding nutrients to foods-Where do we go from here?." Thirteen presentations by speakers with varied backgrounds, but common interest and expertise in the wide range of factors which must be considered while nutrients are added to foods have been made.

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The name of the magazine itself is self explanatory. It is a quarterly magazine containing reviews of works written by various authors on anthropology and other allied and interrelated subjects.

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With the so called "modern epidemic" namely cardiovascular diseases afflicting both young and old all over the world without much prior signal, the question in the mind of every one concerned with health care is "can something to be done to reverse the lesions occurring in heart diseases.

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Students of Food Science in higher secondary schools and colleges will love the bock "Food for Today" because of its interesting and unique approach in making the readers understand the concepts and think further.

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For all those interested in research aspects of health and nutrition, the annual report of the Indian Council of Medical Research is a welcome boon where the recent research findings in the field of public health and nutrition are published.

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With the hike in prices of foods, food preservation is extremely vital today and all methods should be employed to conserve and preserve the available food supply.

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With pressure cooker in every household as the "must" this book gives practical hints on "Why" and "How" of pressure cooking. In three chapters introducing the pressure cooker as the benefactor in the kitchen, the author explains the unique function of the pressure cooker.

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All educationists strongly feel that the education should equip the students appropriately and adequately for the world of work.

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The present day Food Service Institutions have to face great challenges to ensure consumer satisfaction Quality control in Food Service Institutions is very essential at every step from development of food specification till service to the consumer.

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The crucial problem of food shortage and the consequent under nutrition and malnutrition in the world call for some special efforts directed to augment food production and to utilize the available traditional food sources to the fullest benefit.

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This book is really thought provoking with newer insight on the role of cholesterol in predisposing an individual to heart diseases. To people of both medical and nutritional field, this book gives some newer thoughts.

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The Family Guide to Better Food and Better Health is a comprehensive book on nutrition for the layman. The approach to the fundamentals of the science of nutrition is unique and different from what we see in other books on nutrition.

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The revised edition of Nutrition for Mother and Child is very useful for the Indian housewife and for those concerned with the health and care of mothers and children.

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In this "Modern World of Beverages" this book on hot and cold drinks is a welcome note. Alloting one chapter for each beverage, the authors have dealt in detail the processing, distribution and the best service to the consumer. Factors contributing to beverage spoilage and how to overcome them are also discussed in detail.

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This report on the seminar on the "Protein Food Promotion" has two parts consisting of articles related to the topics in the seminar contributed by outstanding scientists from United States of America, Japan, Indonesia, Netherlands and Thailand and the summary of the interesting, discussions they had.

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