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Title Food & nutrition in Australia / edited by Mark L. Wahlqvist ; contributors: David R. Briggs ... [and others] ; illustrations by Neville Todd
Edition Revised edition
Published North Ryde, N.S.W. : Methuen Australia, 1982
[(1983?])

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 ADPML SPDU  641.300994 Foo  LIB USE ONLY
Description 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Section one: The sociology of food -- Nutrition does it matter? / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- History of nutrition in Australia / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Culture and food choice / Patricia A. Crotty -- Australian eating pattern / Delia M. Flint -- Food and law / David R. Briggs -- Food faddism / Delia M. Flint -- Section two: the science food -- Food production / Richard S.D. Read -- Food processing / Gwyn P. Jones -- Food microbiology / David R. Briggs and Gwyn P. Jones -- Food preparation / Jill B. Carey and Richard S. D. Read -- Food additives / David R. Briggs -- Section three: physiology and metabolism -- Digestion and absorption / Boyd J. Strauss -- Metabolism / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Section four: nutrients and their significance -- Energy / Jill B. Carey and Richard S.D. Read -- Carbohydrates / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Dietary fibre / Gwyn P. Jones -- Lipids / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Dietary fibre / Gwyn P. Jones -- Lipids / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Protein / Richard S.D. Read -- Water / Boyd J. Strauss and Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Vitamins / Delia M. Flint -- Major elements / Boyd J. strauss -- Alcohol / Boyd J Strauss -- Natural toxicants in food / David R. Briggs -- Food composition table and dietary allanwance / Delia M. Flint -- Section five: Nutrition status -- The individual / Delia M. Flint -- The community / Ingrid H. E. Retishauser -- Section six: nutrition and the ages of man -- Pregnancy and lactation / Ingrid H.E. Retishauser -- Growing up: infant to adolescent / Ingrid H. E. Rutishauser -- The audult family unit / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- The elderly / Delia M. Flint -- Section seven: some issues in nutrition -- Nutrition and cancer / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Nutrition and the brain / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Food allergies / David R. Briggs -- Our neighbours / Delia M. Flint -- Future food supply / Richard S.D. Read -- Nutrition education / Patricia A. Crotty -- National nutrition policy / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Section eitght: Nutrition resources
Notes For senior secondary school students
Previous ed.: North Ryde, N.S.W. : Cassell, 1981
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Notes For senior secondary school students
Subject Diet -- Australia.
Food consumption -- Australia.
Food habits -- Australia.
Food -- Composition.
Food -- Popular works.
Food.
Nutrition.
Nutrition -- Popular works.
Nutrition -- Australia.
Food.
Nutrition
SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Genre/Form Popular Work.
Author Briggs, David R., 1944-
Todd, Neville
Wahlqvist, Mark L.
LC no. dup45400414
ISBN 0454004141
Other Titles Food and nutrition in Australia