The relationship between diet and those diseases caused by, or related to, poor nutrition is influenced by anthropological and physiological factors. This volume, first published in 1990 and based on a symposium organised in collaboration with the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food, emphasises the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of diet and disease. Distinguished contributors, from nutritionists to anthropologists, examine the ways in which nutrition may affect sociocultural circumstances and how the causation and distribution of disease is linked to anthropological factors. Amongst the topics addressed are the extent to which human beings can adapt to food shortage, how nutritional factors affect people's capacity to work and develop properly mentally, how nutritional status influences susceptibility to infectious disease, who is most at risk in the community and why, the relationship between environment , economy and malnutrition and how people perceive food in relation to health. This research level text will interest both nutritionists and anthropologists.
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Distinguished contributors, from nutritionists to anthropologists, examine the ways in which nutrition may affect sociocultural circumstances and how the causation and distribution of disease is linked to anthropological factors.
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nutritional adaptation, thyroid research, nitrogen metabolism, seasonal food uncertainty, pricked sorghum, iodised oil injections, dietary repletion, excess female child mortality, adequately nourished children, undernourished boys, sweet potato farmers, reductive adaptation, nutritional vulnerability, marginal malnutrition, basal period, seasonal food shortage, excess female mortality, seasonal hunger, malnourished subjects, iodine deficiency disorders, small birth weight, endemic goitre, iodised salt, endemic cretinism, dietary protein deficiency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, New York, South Asia, Ministry of Health, John Libbey, British Journal of Nutrition, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, Red Sea, Human Nutrition, Raven Press, Cambridge University Press, South Kordofan, Papua New Guinea, Academic Press, North Sudan, North Kordofan, Third World, Journal of Applied Physiology, Blue Nile, Journal of Pediatrics, British Medical Journal, North Darfur, South Darfur, White Nile, American Social Science Research Council Workshop Browse Sample Pages:
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nutritional adaptation, thyroid research, nitrogen metabolism, seasonal food uncertainty, pricked sorghum, iodised oil injections, dietary repletion, excess female child mortality, adequately nourished children, undernourished boys, sweet potato farmers, reductive adaptation, nutritional vulnerability, marginal malnutrition, basal period, seasonal food shortage, excess female mortality, seasonal hunger, malnourished subjects, iodine deficiency disorders, small birth weight, endemic goitre, iodised salt, endemic cretinism, dietary protein deficiency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, New York, South Asia, Ministry of Health, John Libbey, British Journal of Nutrition, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, Red Sea, Human Nutrition, Raven Press, Cambridge University Press, South Kordofan, Papua New Guinea, Academic Press, North Sudan, North Kordofan, Third World, Journal of Applied Physiology, Blue Nile, Journal of Pediatrics, British Medical Journal, North Darfur, South Darfur, White Nile, American Social Science Research Council Workshop Browse Sample Pages:
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