Beverage Impacts on Health and Nutrition Second Edition
This comprehensive and authoritative second edition offers food scientists, nutritionists, public health specialists, and those involved in the research and development of new beverages an exhaustive survey of how common beverages impact our health and nu
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Ted Wilson Norman J. Temple Editors
Beverage Impacts on Health and Nutrition Second Edition
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SERIES Adrianne Bendich, PhD, FACN, SERIES EDITOR
For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/7659
Ted Wilson Ph.D. • Norman J. Temple Ph.D. Editors
Beverage Impacts on Health and Nutrition Second Edition
Editors Ted Wilson Ph.D. Department of Biology Winona State University Winona, MN, USA
Norman J. Temple Ph.D. Centre for Science Athabasca University Athabasca, AB, Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-23671-1 ISBN 978-3-319-23672-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23672-8
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In a stream we often fish for trout, but in nutrition we try to fish for the truth. These chapters are the flies we use to fish for the truth of healthier lives. I hope my sons Jack and Dirk can use this information on our path to catching big fish. Ted Wilson “To Joseph, my adorable grandson” Norman J. Temple
Foreword
The roles of beverage consumption and hydration in health are two of the most important, underestimated, and poorly communicated aspects in all of nutrition. While diverse beverages provide multiple health-promoting properties, perhaps the most important is hydration. All beverages hydrate. The simple fact is that humans are basically water. The human body contains between 60 and 70 % water, and even a decrease of 1 or 2 % in hydration status can cause a significant decline in performance. It is no wonder that the US Military carefully studies hydration in pilots. Think of a jet pilot going at supersonic speeds making a slight error and flying a 20 million dollar jet into the side of a mountain! Proper hydration is also critical to sports pe
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