MSc Clinical and Public Health Nutrition
Reading List
There is no single text book that covers the majority of material taught on the programme.
You will find that each module component and even each teaching session will make specific
reading recommendations. Students are under no obligation to purchase textbooks, and UCL
has excellent library facilities. However, if you would like to purchase books, these are
suggestions. The Nutrition Society Textbook series is excellent.
Highly recommended texts
Geissler C, Powers H. Human Nutrition. Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, 2010.
Excellent BSc/MSc text on Nutrition - good concise chapters.
Roach, J.O. and Benyon, S. (2003) Crash course - Metabolism and Nutrition, London:Mosby
(Highly recommended - does what it says if your grasp of Metabolism is less secure)
Frayn KN. Metabolic Regulation: A Human Perspective. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons,
2010.
Excellent BSc/MSc text on Nutrition - good concise chapters
Bolsover, S.R., Shephard, E.A., White, H.A., & Hyams, J.S. 2011. Cell Biology: Short
Course, 3 ed. Bognor Regis, United Kingdom, Wiley-Blackwell.
Excellent primer for Cell Biology. Edited by colleagues in Cell and Developmental Biology at
UCL
Recommended texts
Vitamins
Bender, D.A. (2003) Nutritional Biochemistry of the Vitamins, 2nd edition, Cambridge
University Press.
Basu, T.K. and J.W. Dickerson (1996) Vitamins in human health and diseases, Wallingford
and New York: CAB International
Metabolism
Frayn KN. Metabolic Regulation: A Human Perspective. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons,
2010.
Highly recommended
Bender, D.A. (2002) Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism, 3rd Edition, Taylor & Francis.
Gibney, M..J., Macdonald, I.A. and Roche, H.M. (2003). Nutrition and Metabolism. Oxford
Science: Blackwell Science.
Waterlow JC. Protein Turnover. CAB International, 2006
Hardback
9780851996134,
Biochemistry
Brody, T. (1999) Nutritional Biochemistry (2nd edition),London Academic Press.
Campbell, P.N. and A.D.Smith (2000) Biochemistry Illustrated, 4th edition, Churchill
Livingstone.
Devlin, T., ed. (2002) Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations, 5th edition, New
York: John Wiley & Sons. (This book is very good because it has several case-studies to
work through)
Stryer, L. (2002) Biochemistry, 5th edition, San Francisco: Freeman (or later edition)
Montgomery, R., T.W. Conway and A.A.Spector (1996) Biochemistry: a Case-orientated
Approach, 6th edition, St Louis: Mosby. (Good - if you can find it on Amazon)
Physiology
Ganong, W.F. (2003) Review of Medical Physiology, 21st edition, London: Prentice-Hall.
Kapit W, Macey RI, Meisami E. The Physiology Coloring Book. Benjamin Cummings, 2000.
(This is a fun book which will bring you up to speed really quickly if your physiology is a bit
sketchy. Colouring pencils not supplied!)
Nutrition
Geissler C, Powers H. Human Nutrition. Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, 2010.
Excellent BSc/MSc text on Nutrition - good concise chapters.
Stipanuk, M.H. (2000). Biochemical and Physiological Aspects of Human Nutrition,
Philadelphia:W.B.Saunders.
(Outstanding textbook which is hard going but rewarding. Some chapters a little dated now.)
Nutrition and Immunology
P Shetty. Nutrition, Immunity and Infection. CAB International. July 2009
Paperback 9780851995311
Clinical Nutrition
Sobotka L, Allison SJ, Meier R, Pertkiewicz M, Soeters PB. ESPEN Book - Basics in Clinical
Nutrition. Prague: Galen, 2010.
Outstanding and concise textbook of clinical nutrition.
Payne-James, J.J., G. K. Grimble, and D. B. A. Silk. (2001). Artificial Nutrition Support in
Clinical Practice, London:Greenwich Medical Media
(new edition in March 2012).
Pichard, C., and Kudsk K.A. (2002). From Nutrition Support to Pharmacologic Nutrition in the
ICU (Update in Intensive Care Medicine). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Cresci, G. (2005). Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient: A Guide to Practice. Boca
Raton: CRC Press Inc
Disease-related malnutrition
R J Stratton, C J Green, M Elia. Disease-related Malnutrition: An Evidence-based Approach
to Treatment. CAB International, 2003. Hardback
9780851996486
(Excellent, exhaustive analysis of this issue)
Lennard-Jones, J.E., ed. (1992) A Positive Approach to Nutrition. Report of a Working Party,
London: King's Fund Centre
Nutrition Assessment
Vellas, B., P. J. Garry, and Y. Guigoz. (1999). Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA): Research
and Practice in the Elderly, Basel:S. Karger AG.
Revised September 15, 2010/February 2012/May 2013