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Title Diet and disease : in traditional and developing societies / edited by G.A. Harrison and J.C. Waterlow.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  613.2 D565D    Check Shelf
Description ix, 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ; 30
Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ; 30.
Note "Organised in collaboration with the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.).
Subject Nutritionally induced diseases -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Diet in disease -- Congresses.
Developing Countries -- Congresses.
Disease -- etiology -- Congresses.
Nutrition Disorders -- complications -- Congresses.
Added Author Harrison, G. A. (Geoffrey Ainsworth), 1927-2017
Waterlow, J. C. (John Conrad)
International Commission on Anthropology of Food and Food Problems.
ISBN 0521384540
9780521384544
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