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Nutrition (journal)
''Nutrition'' is a monthly peer-review Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer revie ...ed medical journal covering nutrition science. It was established in 1985 under the name ''Nutrition International'', obtaining its current name in 1987. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Alessandro Laviano (Sapienza University of Rome). Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *CINAHL *Current Contents/Life Sciences *MEDLINE *Index Medicus *EMBASE *Food Science and Technology Abstracts *Referativnyi Zhurnal (Russian Academy of Sciences) *SCISEARCH *CAB Abstracts *Scopus According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 3.42. References External links *{{Official website, 1=www.nutritionjrnl.com Publicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nutrition Science
Nutritional science (also nutrition science, sometimes short ''nutrition'', dated trophology) is the science that studies the physiological process of nutrition (primarily human nutrition), interpreting the nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism. History Before nutritional science emerged as an independent study disciplines, mainly chemists worked in this area. The chemical composition of food was examined. Macronutrients, especially protein, fat and carbohydrates, have been the focus components of the study of (human) nutrition since the 19th century. Until the discovery of vitamins and vital substances, the quality of nutrition was measured exclusively by the intake of nutritional energy. The early years of the 20th century were summarized by Kenneth John Carpenter in his ''Short History of Nutritional Science'' as "the vitamin era". The first vitamin was isolated and chemically defined in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |