Nutritional Triggers For Health And In Disease (WORLD REVIEW OF NUTRITION & DIETETICS)

By Artemis P. Simopoulos

This volume consists of four reviews on subjects basic to nutrition and dietetics that are interrelated in terms of taste, malnutrition, immunology, milk-feeding models, and rickets, a disease which is viewed not simply as a nutritional disorder but as a specific complex disease of the tropics. in the management of food intake and food selection, while the second paper provides a complete evaluation of the piglet as a model for infant feeding. The third paper discusses the role of nutrients to enhance the complement system in order to induce resistance to infection in malnutrition. Finally, rickets is reviewed in terms of epidemiologic, metabolic, genetic and religious factors, and in relation to vitamin A deficiency, iron deficiency and thalassemia.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3805552653
• ISBN13: 9783805552653
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
• Length: 202 Pages