David Bender is Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, University College London. Hehas authored and co-authored several texts on nutrition, including Introduction to Nutrition and Medicine (CRC Press), now going into its 5th edition, the A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (2009), and Food Tables and Labelling (1999, with Arnold E. Bender). His research interests have been in the field of amino acid and vitamin nutritional biochemistry.
"""[A] very readable primer on diet and related body mechanisms...readily accessible for quick reading in digestible gulps."" --R. A. Hoots, Sacramento City College, CHOICE"