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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
- 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