The Contribution of nutrition to human and animal health / edited by E.M. Widdowson & J.C. Mathers.

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Other Authors: Widdowson, Elsie M. (Elsie May), 1906-2000, Mathers, J. C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • Control of energy balance in experimental animals / M.J. Stock
  • Control of energy intake in farm animals / J.M. Forbes
  • Energy expenditure: studies with animals / A.J.F. Webster
  • Energy expenditure of man: earlier studies / R. Passmore
  • Energy requirements of man: recent thinking / A.M. Prentice and W.A. Coward
  • Obesity in man / J.S. Garrow
  • Digestive physiology of ruminant livestock: a review of recent developments / D.E. Beever
  • Nitrogen metabolism in the ruminant / P.J. Buttery
  • Protein metabolism in man / A.A. Jackson
  • Metabolism of fat / M.I. Gurr
  • Sugars: still the Cinderella of nutrients? / I.A. Macdonald
  • Complex carbohydrates / J.H. Cummings and H.N. Englyst
  • Calcium metabolism / D.R. Fraser
  • Metabolism of iron and its bioavailability in foods / S.J. Fairweather-Tait
  • Trace element investigations in man and animals / C.F. Mills.
  • Recent investigations on trace elements, particularly selenium / M.F. Robinson
  • Fat-soluble vitamins / D.R. Fraser.
  • (cont) Water-soluble vitamins / C.J. Bates
  • Nutrition and pregnancy in animals / J.J. Robinson
  • Endocrine control of lactation / I.C. Hart
  • Fundamental interactions between nutrition and growth / D. Lister
  • Opportunities for the manipulation of nutrition and growth / P.J. Reeds, M.I. Fiorotto and W.C. Heird
  • Nutrition and human pregnancy / J.V.G.A. Durnin
  • Early nutrition and later outcome / A. Lucas
  • Nutrition and growth in tropical environments: the use of anthropometry / E.F. Wheeler
  • Undernutrition in Germany in the post-war period / E.M. Widdowson
  • Kwashiorkor in Uganda / R.G. Whitehead
  • Protein-energy malnutrition in Jamaica / J.C. Waterlow
  • Food and nutrition policies in wartime / D.F. Hollingsworth
  • Translating nutrition knowledge into policy / W.P.T. James and A. Ralph
  • Epidemiology of diet and health / G.A. Rose.
  • Government food and nutrition policies for the 1990s / D.H. Buss
  • Composition of foods / D.A.T. Southgate
  • Nutrition education: the key to dispelling misinformation / M. Ashwell and G. Fine
  • Responsibility of the food industry / J. Edelman.