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Emerging Technologies for Nutrition Research:

Potential for Assessing Military Performance Capability
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Front Matter i-xviii  
I Committee Summary and Recommendations 1-2 (skim)
1 Project Overview and Committee Summary 3-50 (skim)
2 Committee Responses to Questions, Conclusions and Recommendations 51-68 (skim)
II The Current Army Program and Its Future Needs 69-70 (skim)
3 Emerging Technologies in Nutrition Research for the Military: Overview of the Issues 71-78 (skim)
III Techniques of Body Composition Assessment 79-80 (skim)
4 Military Application of Body Composition Assessment Technologies 81-126 (skim)
5 Imaging Techniques of Body Composition: Advantages of Measurement and New Uses 127-150 (skim)
6 Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry: Research Issues, and Equipment 151-168 (skim)
7 Bioelectrical Impedance: A History, Research Issues, and Recent Consensus 169-192 (skim)
Part III Discussion 193-198 (skim)
IV Tracer Techniques for the Study of Metabolism 199-200 (skim)
8 Stable Isotope Tracers: Technological Tools That Have Emerged 201-214 (skim)
9 Measurement of Energy Substrate Metabolism Using Stable Isotopes 215-230 (skim)
10 Combined Stable Isotope-Positron Emission Tomography for In Vivo Assessment of Protein Metabolism 231-258 (skim)
11 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Liver and Muscle Glycogen Metabolism in Humans 259-272 (skim)
Part IV Discussion 273-278 (skim)
V Ambulatory Techniques for Measurement of Energy Expenditure 279-280 (skim)
12 Doubly Labeled Water for Energy Expenditure 281-296 (skim)
13 Measurement of Oxygen Uptake with Portable Equipment 297-314 (skim)
14 Advances in Ambulatory Monitoring: Using Foot Contact Time to Estimate the Metabolic Cost of Locomotion 315-344 (skim)
15 Noninvasive Measurement of Plasma Metabolites Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy 359-360 (skim)
Part V Discussion 361-362 (skim)
VI Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Nutrition 363-374 (skim)
16 The Role of Metals in Gene Expression 375-388 (skim)
17 Metabolic Regulation of Gene Expression 389-400 (skim)
18 Use of Isolated-Cell and Metabolic Techniques Applied to Vitamin Transport and Disposition 401-414 (skim)
19 Assessment of Cellular Dysfunction During Physiologic Stress 415-416 (skim)
VII Assessment of Immune Function 417-430 (skim)
20 The Validity of Blood and Urinary Cytokine Measurements for Detecting the Presence of Inflammation 431-450 (skim)
21 New Approaches to the Study of Abnormal Immune Function 451-500 (skim)
Part VI and VII Discussion 501-504 (skim)
VIII Functional and Behavioral Measures of Nutritional Status 505-506 (skim)
23 Involuntary Muscle Contraction to Assess Nutritional Status 507-518 (skim)
24 Application of Cognitive Performance Assessment Technology to Military Nutrition Research 519-532 (skim)
25 New Techniques for Assessment of Mental Performance in the Field 533-550 (skim)
26 The Iowa Driving Simulator: Using Simulation for Human Performance Measurement 551-568 (skim)
Part VIII Discussion 569-576 (skim)
Appendixes 577-578 (skim)
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda 579-584 (skim)
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches 585-604 (skim)
Appendix C: Abbreviations 605-608 (skim)
Appendix D: Emerging Technologies for Nutrition Research - A Selected Biography 609-680 (skim)
Index 681-711 (skim)
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The latest of a series of publications based on workshops sponsored by the Committee on Military Nutrition Research, this book's focus on emerging technologies for nutrition research arose from a concern among scientists at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine that traditional nutrition research, using standard techniques, centered more on complex issues of the maintenance or enhancement of performance, and might not be sufficiently substantive either to measure changes in performance or to predict the effects on performance of stresses soldiers commonly experience in operational environments. The committee's task was to identify and evaluate new technologies to determine whether they could help resolve important issues in military nutrition research. The book contains the committee's summary and recommendations as well as individually authored chapters based on presentations at a 1995 workshop. Other chapters cover techniques of body composition assessment, tracer techniques for the study of metabolism, ambulatory techniques for the determination of energy expenditure, molecular and cellular approaches to nutrition, the assessment of immune function, and functional and behavioral measures of nutritional status.

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