Table of Contents

Alcohol Related Nutrition Derangement: Implications for Nutritional Support (Olalekan E. Odeleye and Ronald R. Watson). Dietary Factors and Alcohol Consumption (Raye Z. Litten and John P. Allen). Nutritional Status of Alcoholics from Different Social Groups (Mikko Salaspuro). Interaction of Nutrients and Alcohol: Absorption, Transport, Utilization, and Metabolism (Allan D. Thompson and Oliver E. Pratt). Alcohol and Glucose Homeostasis (T. Norman Palmer, Xu Dan, and Paul G. Drake). Role of Carbohydrate in Alcohol Metabolism (George D. Guthrie). Protein Metabolism in Alcoholism (Victor R. Preedy and Timothy J. Peters). Effects of Dietary Fatty Acids and Alcohol on Fatty Acid Composition in Cellular Membranes (Ronald C. Reitz). Metabolic Flux and the Role of Lipids in Alcohol Tolerance in Drosophila (Robert R. Miller, Jr., Pieter W. H. Heinstra, and Billy W. Geer). Riboflavin Status of Alcoholics (Daphne A. Roe). Folate Metabolism in Alcoholism (Charles H. Halsted). The Effects of Ethanol on Vitamin A and ß-Carotene Nutriture (Sohrab Mobarhan, John W. Erdman, Jr., and Howard Friedman). Zinc and Alcohol (Craig J. McClain, Edward J. Kasarskis, and Luis Marsano). Animal Models Show Nutritional Modulation of Alcoholic Liver Disease (G. Ananda Rao, Edward C. Larkin, Robert F. Derr, and Hariharan Sankaran). Nutritional Factors in the Pathogenesis of Alcoholic Liver Disease (Samuel W. French). Protein-Calorie Malnutrition in Alcoholic Liver Disease (Charles L. Mendenhall). Nutritional Support in Alcoholic Liver Disease (Luis Marsano and Craig J. McClain). Alcohol Malnutrition and the Gastrointestinal Tract (J. Christine Bode and Christiane Bode). Nutrition and Alcohol-Induced Immunomodulation (Bernhard Watzl and Ronald R. Watson).

About the Author

Watson; Ronald Ross University of Arizona, Tucson, USA,Watzl; Bernhard Justus-Liebig-University,