Neural and Metabolic Control of Macronutrient Intake

Neural and Metabolic Control of Macronutrient Intake discusses the mechanisms involved in macronutrient selection. It reviews the hypothesis that ingestion of the three nutrients is regulated by separate neural control mechanisms which would allow strategies to be devised to intervene in bodily control systems to alter the proportion of fat in the diet. It provides three types of information: basic background of the biochemical and physiological systems as they relate to macronutrient selection; data concerning the degree to which animals and humans show evidence of macronutrient selection; and evidence about how the central nervous system might be involved in the choices animals make.