Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 321 S
,
Ill., graph. Darst
Series Statement:
Monograph / Institute of Social and Historical Medicine 3
DDC:
641.1
Keywords:
Food habits
;
Nutrition
;
History of Medicine
;
Nutrition
Abstract:
Foreword / Howard Reid Craig -- Introduction / Charles G. King -- Conference orientation / Iago Galdston -- Food habits in Latin America : a preliminary historical survey / Richard N. Adams -- Food and food habits in Alaska and Northern Canada / Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- Food and society in China and India / Karl A. Wittfogel -- Nutrition from classical antiquity to the Baroque / Owsei Temkin -- From Lavoisier to Beaumont and Hopkins / E.W. McHenry -- From Hopkins to the present / Elmer V. McCollum -- Development of improved crops / Henry A. Wallace -- Principles and problems of increasing food crops and animals in low-production areas / J. George Harrar -- Effect of processing on the nutritive value of foods / David B. Hand -- The meat industry / Herbert E. Robinson -- The development of dairy products / Leonard A. Maynard -- Nutrition and population pressures / Fairfield Osborn --
Abstract:
Health in the perspective of nutrition / W. Henry Sebrell, Jr. -- Implementing nutrition concepts in medicine and public health / Fredrick J. Stare -- Toward a philosophy for nutrition / Howard A. Schneider -- The influence of hormones on metabolic demands and subsequent alterations in nutritional requirements / Herbert Pollack -- Nutritional factors in the regulation of fat metabolism / Jules Hirsch -- Epidemiology of protein malnutrition / Moiseś Beh́ar and Nevin S. Scrimshaw -- Nutrition in the early development phase / Paul Gyor̈gy -- Research prospectives in nutrition : the nucleus of the problem / Max A. Lauffer -- New horizons in research / Charles G. King
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