Many disciplines have
emerged from Biochemistry . Nutritional biochemistry is a branch of biochemistry
and is made up of the core knowledge, concepts, and methodology related to
the chemical properties of nutrients and other dietary constituents and to
their biochemical, metabolic, physiological, and epigenetic
functions. This discipline has influence on mammalian physiology, health,
and behavior.
For example, nutritional
biochemistry is involved in the purification of individual nutrients and the
determination of their structures, as well as in classical biochemical
approaches that identify metabolic pathways and elucidate the
role of dietary components in regulating metabolism and gene
expression. Again, genetic studies of inherited inborn errors of
metabolism have contribution in the core nutritional biochemical knowledge.
And this has helped revealing important interrelationships among
nutrition, metabolism, and genotype and their interactions
during normal and abnormal human development.
Therefore, the field of nutrition
has close relation with biochemistry.
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