Nutritional approaches to aging research / editor, Gairdner B. Moment

Includes bibliographies and index

Introduction / Gairdner B. Moment -- Nutrition and age-related changes of carbohydrate metabolism / Jeffrey B. Halter and Mei Chen -- Lipids in nutrition and aging / E.J. Masoro -- Human aging : protein and amino acid metabolism and implications for protein and amino acid requirements / Vernon R. Young, Mitchell Gersovitz, and Hamish N. Munro -- The vitamin status and requirements of the elderly / Barbara B. Fleming -- Trace elements in aging research : emphasis on zinc, copper, chromium, and selenium / J. Cecil Smith and Jeng M. Hsu -- Dietary antioxidants and aging on membrane functions / Albert Y. Sun and Grace Y. Sun -- Effects of aging upon intestinal absorption / Peter R. Holt -- Nutrition in the development and aging of the skeleton / Agatha A. Rider -- Aging, arthritis, and food hypersensitivities and allergies : a research opportunity revisited / Gairdner B. Moment -- The important interaction of alcoholism with nutrition in the elderly / Frank L. Iber -- Dietary restriction and life extension--biological mechanisms / Charles H. Barrows, Jr. and Gertrude C. Kokkonen -- Nutrition and the hypothalamic-pituitary influence on aging / Arthur V. Everitt