Author: Widdowson, E.M. & Mathers, J.C., editors:
Title: The Contribution of Nutrition to Human & Animal Health
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1992). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xvi, 407 pp. Textual tables & graphs. Minor rubbing, slight page-edge soil, VG ¶ Contains 35 papers concerning Energy intake & expenditure; Metabolism of the major nutrients; Minerals & vitamins; Pregnancy, lactation & growth; Deficiencies of energy & protein; Policies for food, nutrition and health; Food composition, food education and the role of the food industry. Includes: M.J. Stock "Control of energy balance in experimental animals"; J.S. Garrow "Obesity in man" ; D.E. Beever "Digestive physiology of ruminant livestock: a review of recent developments" ; P.J. Buttery " Nitrogen metabolism in the ruminant" ; A.A. Jackson "Protein metabolism in man" ; I.C. Hart "The Endocrine Control of Lactation" ; E.F. Wheeler " Nutrition & Growth in Tropical Environments: The Use of Anthropometry"; E. M. Widdowson "Undernutrition in Germany in the post-war period"; R.G. Whitehead "Kwashiorkor in Uganda" ; J.C. Waterloo "Protein-energy malnutrition in Jamaica" ; D.F. Hollingsworth "Food & Nutrition Policies in Wartime" ; G.A. Rose "The Epidemiology of Diet & Health", etc.

Keywords: Energy metabolism, Nutrition policy, Malnutrition, Diet, Health, , , ,