Part I: Food. Part II: Nutrition Science. Part III: Nutrition Throughout Life. Part IV: Assessment. Part V: Clinical Nutrition.
Carolyn D. Berdanier, PhD, is professor
emerita, nutrition and cell biology, University of Georgia in
Athens. She earned her BS from the Pennsylvania State University
and her MS and PhD from Rutgers University. She has had a long and
productive career in nutrition. Her publication record includes 135
research publications in peer-reviewed journals, 20 books either
authored or edited, 55 chapters in multi-authored books, 30 invited
reviews, and numerous short reviews in Nutrition Reviews and
papers in the lay nutrition magazine, Nutrition Today. She
has received numerous awards for her scientific work. She is a
member of the American Society of Nutrition Science, Society for
Experimental Biology and Medicine, the American Physiology Society,
and the American Diabetes Association.
Johanna Dwyer, DSc, is professor of medicine (nutrition) and
community health at the Tufts University Medical School and
professor of nutrition at Tufts University Friedman School of
Nutrition Science and Policy. She is also a senior scientist at the
Jean Mayer/USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts
University. Her major research interest is in flavonoids,
population-based nutrition surveys, and nutrition policy. Dr. Dwyer
is the director of the Frances Stern Nutrition Center at Tufts
Medical Center.
From 2003 to 2011, Dr. Dwyer served part time as senior nutrition
scientist, Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of
Health. She now serves as a scientific consultant in the same
capacity, where she is responsible for several large projects,
including studies of dietary supplement motivation and use,
development of an analytically substantiated dietary supplement
database and other dietary supplement databases, development of
research on the assessment of dietary supplement intake, and other
topics. Dr. Dwyer received her DSc and MSc from the Harvard School
of Public Health, an MS from the University of Wisconsin, and
completed her undergraduate degree with distinction from Cornell
University. She is the author or coauthor of more than 250 research
articles and 300 review articles published in scientific journals.
She also serves as the editor of Nutrition Today.
David Heber, MD, PhD, is professor of medicine and public
health, chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition, and director
of the Center for Human Nutrition at UCLA. He received his medical
degree from Harvard Medical School and his PhD in physiology from
UCLA. Dr. Heber is board certified in internal medicine and
endocrinology and metabolism by the American Board of Internal
Medicine and as a physician nutrition specialist by the American
Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists. He served as a director
of the Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists and is a
former chair of the Medical Nutrition Council of the American
Society for Nutrition. He is a councilor and fellow of The Obesity
Society. He has written over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles,
over 60 book chapters, 2 professional texts, and 4 books for the
public. His main research interests are obesity treatment and
nutrition for cancer prevention and treatment.
"... All chapters are written by experts in the field and
include brief to extensive reference lists. This volume remains a
very fine overview ofthe field of human nutrition. ... Highly
recommended"
-N Duran, Texas A&M University in CHOICE
Magazine, April 2014
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