The Contribution of Nutrition to Human and Animal Health

This 1992 book details the contribution which nutrition research has made and continues to make to the health of man and animals.

Elsie M. Widdowson (Edited by), John C. Mathers (Edited by)

9780521420648, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 October 1992

424 pages, 50 b/w illus. 25 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.79 kg

'A series of major reviews by influential scientists … Scholars and students with a permanent interest in human nutrition will want this book on their shelves.' Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Through a series of major reviews by influential scientists from Britain and elsewhere, this 1992 book details the contribution which nutrition research has made and continues to make to the health of man and animals. The volume was prepared for the Golden Jubilee of the Nutrition Society and celebrates 50 years of nutrition research. The reader will find chapters on energy and the major nutrients including vitamins and trace minerals and their influence on reproduction, lactation, growth and development. Research on malnutrition in the developing world and in Germany in the 1940s together with the successful feeding of the British people during the Second World War are discussed. The volume also surveys the impact of diet on human health today and the opportunities for further reducing the risk of major chronic disease. The volume provides a useful overview of the development nutrition reseach. It will appeal to all those with a professional interest in nutrition and health, dietetics, food science, veterinary medicine and agricultural and animal science.

Preface
Abbreviations
Part I. Energy Intake and Expenditure: 1. Control of energy balance in experimental animals M. L. Stock
2. Control of energy intake in farm animals J. M. Forbes
3. Energy expenditure: studies with animals A. J. F. Webster
4. Energy expenditure of man: earlier studies R. Passmore
5. Energy requirements of man: recent thinking A. M. Prentice and W. A. Coward
6. Obesity in man J. S. Garrow
Part II. Metabolism of the Major Nutrients: 7. Digestive physiology of ruminant livestock: a review of recent developments D. E. Beever
8. Nitrogen metabolism in the ruminant P. J. Buttery
9. Protein metabolism in man A. A. Jackson
10. The metabolism of fat M. I. Gurr
11. Sugars - still the Cinderella of nutrients? I. A. MacDonald
12. Complex carbohydrates J. H. Cummings and H. N. Englyst
Part III. Minerals and Vitamins: 13. Calcium metabolism D. R. Fraser
14. The metabolism of iron and its bioavailability in foods S. J. Fairweather-Tait
15. Trace element investigations in man and animals C. F. Mills
16. Recent investigations on trace elements, particularly selenium M. F. Robinson
17. Fat-soluble vitamins M. F. Robinson
Part IV. Pregnancy, Lactation and Growth: 18. Nutrition and pregnancy in animals C. J. Bates
19. The endocrine control of lactation in animals J. J. Robinson
20. Fundamental interactions between nutrition and growth I. C. Hart
21. Opportunities for the manipulation of nutrition and growth D. Lister
22. Nutrition and human pregnancy P. J. Reeds, M. I. Fiorotto and W. C. Heird
23. Early nutrition and later outcome J. V. G. A. Durnin
24. Early nutrition and later outcome A. Lucas
25. Nutrition and growth in tropical environments, the use of antropometry E. F. Wheeler
Part V. Deficiences of Energy and Protein: 26. Undernutrition in Germany in the post-war period E. M. Widdowson
27. Kwashiorkor in Uganda R. G. Whitehead
28. Protein-energy malnutrition in Jamaica J. C. Waterlow
Part VI. Policies for Food, Nutrition and Health: 29. Food and nutrition policies in wartime D. F. Hollingsworth
30. Translating nutrition knowledge into policy W. P. T. James and A. Ralph
31.The epidemiology of diet and health G. A. Rose
32. Government food and nutrition policies for the 1990s D. H. Buss
Part VI. Food Composition, Food Education and the Role of the Food Industry: 33. The composition of foods D. A. T. Southgate
34. Nutrition education - the key to dispelling misinformation M. Ashwell and G. Fine
35. The responsibility of the food industry J. Edelman
Index.

Subject Areas: Biology, life sciences [PS], Physiology [MFG], Dietetics & nutrition [MBNH3]