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Diet and disease : in traditional and developing societies

Title
Diet and disease : in traditional and developing societies / edited by G.A. Harrison and J.C. Waterlow.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Additional Authors
  • Harrison, G. A. (Geoffrey Ainsworth), 1927-2017
  • Waterlow, J. C. (John Conrad)
  • International Commission on Anthropology of Food and Food Problems.
Description
ix, 335 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Series Statement
Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ; 30
Uniform Title
Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ; 30.
Subject
  • Nutritionally induced diseases > Developing countries > Congresses
  • Diet in disease > Congresses
  • Developing Countries
  • Disease > etiology
  • Nutrition Disorders > complications
  • Diet in disease
  • Nutritionally induced diseases
  • Ernährung
  • Ernährungskrankheit
  • Ernährungsstörung
  • Fehlernährung
  • Gesundheit
  • Mangelernährung
  • Kongress
  • Dietas E Dietetica
  • Developing countries
  • Entwicklungsländer
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • "Organised in collaboration with the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Credits (note)
  • Organised in collaboration with the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food (I.U.A.E.S.).
Contents
Mechanisms of adaptation to low energy intakes / J.C Waterlow (19 p.). -- Cultural context of diet, disease and the body / Richard Burghart (19 p.). -- Social adaptation to season and uncertainty in food supply / Igor de Garine (50 p.). -- Food distribution, death and disease in South Asia / Barbara Harriss (17 p.). -- Traditional economies and patterns of nutritional disease / S.S Strickland (31 p.). -- Nutritional vulnerability of the child / P.S Nestel (25 p.). -- Growth and growth charts in the assessment of pre-school nutritional status / Jere D Haas (24 p.). -- Nutrition and illness in the aged / H.M Hodkinson (5 p.). -- Nutritional status and susceptibility to infectious disease / S.J Ulijaszek (18 p.). -- Iodine deficiency disorders / Basil S Hetzel (23 p.). -- Aetiology of kwashiorkor / A.A Jackson (38 p.). -- Impact of chronic undernutrition on physical work capacity and daily energy expenditure / G.B Spurr (38 p.). -- Morbidity, nutritional deficiencies and child development in developing countries / Sally Grantham-McGregor (14 p.).
ISBN
  • 0521384540
  • 9780521384544
LCCN
90219152
OCLC
  • ocm22813212
  • 22813212
  • SCSB-14654715
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library