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Proteins are fundamental to human health, serving as building blocks for cellular structures, providing essential energy, and supporting tissue function. In
Protein Intake in Health and Disease, the critical biomedical and nutritional roles of protein in the diet are explored in depth.
List of contents
1. Protein Quality in Consumer Products and Diets
2. Protein intake in the Mediterranean diet
3. Protein Intake and Exercise
4. Dietary proteins and systemic inflammation
5. Protein requirements in different metabolic scenarios: a focus on endurance athletes, muscle and whole body protein metabolism
6. Understanding the nutritional aspects of dietary proteins: sources, quality, digestibility, and beyond
7. Comparing animal and plant protein diets in relation to chronic cardiometabolic risk factors
8. Alpha ketoglutarate, the bacteriome, protein metabolism and longevity
9. Protein quality: features, measurements, and uses in evaluating diets
10. Improving the quality of lentil protein-based diets: a focus on metabolic availability of methionine
11. Improvement of micronutrient density through increasing protein quality: a strategy to improve diet quality
12. Protein Digestibility of Bread: Impact of Some Breadmaking Processes and Flour Sources
13. Protein sources and determining ileal amino acid digestibility
14. Kwashiorkor malnutrition: linking sulfur amino acids to signs of kwashiorkor
15. Malnutrition and the refeeding syndrome
16. Postoperative protein malnutrition: the example of bariatric surgery
17. The linking of protein in the diet and bone physiology in a negative paradox
18. Addressing protein energy wasting in hemodialysis patients: the case for high-flux and high-efficient convective based therapies
19. The importance of protein intake in relation to oral health: a new narrative
20. Protein in the diet: impact on food intake and energy regulation
21. Protein-calorie malnutrition in cirrhosis: a narrative
22. Dietary protein and cancer
23. Dietary protein and gut microbiota
24. How protein deficiency impacts on the response to infection and immunity: the example of helminth parasite infection
25. Linking protein intolerance, immunity, and disease: the example of celiac disease
26. Modeling protein malnutrition in rodents and its consequences: Implications for clinical investigations
27. High protein diets and impact on hypercholesterolemia
28. High protein diets in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes
29. Maternal Low Protein Diets and Effects on Fetal Programming
30. Effects of maternal diet and body composition on human milk protein
31. "The paradoxical impact of dietary protein on growth in early life:
the role of different protein sources"
32. Protein requirements and quality in infancy and early childhood
33. Protein quantity and quality and links with mental health in adolescents
34. Protein intake and weight loss in postmenopausal women
35. The impact of plant and animal proteins on the diets of older individuals
36. Recommended Resources for Protein Intake in Health and Disease
About the author
Victor R. Preedy BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSB, FRSPH, FRCPath, FRSC is Honorary Professor in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at King's College Hospital, Emeritus Professor in Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King's College London and Visiting Professor at the University of Suffolk. Professor Preedy graduated with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology. He gained his University of London PhD on the biochemical measurements in protein metabolism and also gained a second doctoral degree, for his outstanding contribution to protein metabolism in health and disease. Professor Preedy was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2022. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, The Royal College of Pathologists, The Royal Society for Public Health and The Royal Society of Chemistry. He was the founding Director of the Genomics Centre at King's College London and held the post from 2006 to 2020. In his career Professor Preedy has carried out research at the Cardiothoracic Institute, National Heart Hospital (part of Imperial College London), The School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London) and the MRC Centre at Northwick Park Hospital. He has collaborated with research groups in Finland, Japan, Australia, USA, and Germany. He is a leading expert on the science of health. To his credit, Professor Preedy has published over 750 articles, which includes peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research, abstracts and symposium presentations, reviews and numerous books and volumes.
