The following reviews summarise much of my research:


D. A. Bender. Molecular Aspects of Medicine 6: 103-197, 1983. Biochemistry of tryptophan in health and disease.
D. A. Bender. Neurochemistry International 6: 297-321, 1984. B vitamins in the nervous system.
D. A. Bender & A. E. Bender. Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, series A, 56 695-719, 1986. Niacin and tryptophan metabolism: the biochemical basis of niacin requirements and recommendations.
D. A. Bender. World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics 51: 140-189, 1987. Oestrogens and vitamin B6 - actions and interactions.
D. A. Bender. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 43: 289-309, 1989. Vitamin B6 requirements and recommendations.
D. A. Bender. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 53: 625-30, 1994. Novel functions of vitamin B6.
D. A. Bender. British Journal of Nutrition 81: 7-20, 1999. Non-nutritional uses of vitamin B6.
D. A. Bender. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 58: 427-33. Optimum status: thiamin, biotin and pantothenic acid.
HealthWatch position paper on multivitamin supplements (http://www.healthwatch-uk.org/vitamins.pdf)
D.A.Bender (2003) Do we really know vitamin and mineral requirements for infants and children. JRSH: Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 123: 154-8.

I have published the following books:

D. A. Bender. Amino Acid Metabolism, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. first edition 1975, second edition 1985.
B. M. Barker & D. A. Bender. (Editors) Vitamins in Medicine, 4th Edition. William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd, London: Volume I: 1980, Volume II: 1982.
A. E. Bender & D. A. Bender. Nutrition for Medical Students, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester: 1982.
D. A. Bender & A. E. Bender. Food Tables, Oxford University Press, 1986.
A. E. Bender & D. A. Bender. Food Labelling - a Companion to Food Tables, Oxford University Press, 1991.
D. A. Bender. Nutritional Biochemistry of the Vitamins, first edition Cambridge University Press, 1992, second edition Cambridge University Press 2003.
D. A. Bender. Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism, first edition UCL Press, 1993, second edition Taylor and Francis, 1997, 3rd edition Taylor and Francis 2002.
A. E. Bender & D. A. Bender. Dictionary of Food and Nutrition, Oxford University Press, 1995, second edition 2005.
D. A. Bender & A. E. Bender. Nutrition: A Reference Handbook, Oxford University Press, 1997.
A. E. Bender & D. A. Bender. Food Tables and Labelling, Oxford University Press, 1999.
D. A. Bender & A. E. Bender Benders' Dictionary of Nutriton and Food Technology, 7th Edition, Woodhead Publishing Ltd Cambridge, 1999
D.A.Bender Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism, 3rd Edition, 427 pp, Taylor & Francis, 2002.
D.A.Bender Nutritional Biochemistry of the Vitamins, 2nd Edition, 488 pp, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
D.A.Bender Dictionary of Food and Nutrition, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
D A Bender Benders’ Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology, 8th Edition, Woodhead Publishing, Oxford, 2006.
D.A.Bender Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism, 4th Edition, 427 pp, CRC Press 2007.
D.A.Bender Dictionary of Food and Nutrition, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2009.


I am currently an Executive Editor of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture and Honorary Publications Officer of the Nutrition Society.



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