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Author Wahlqvist, Mark L.

Title Food and nutrition : Australasia, Asia and the Pacific / edited by Mark L. Wahlqvist
Published St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1997

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Description viii, 568 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents Pt. I. EVOLUTION, CULTURE AND FOOD -- 1. Human history and food / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- 2. Anthropological and sociological approaches to understanding food, eating and nutrition / Patricia A. Crotty -- 3. Industrialisation and urbanisation / Richard S.D. Read -- 5. Recent developments in food technologies / David R. Briggs and Louise B. Lennard -- 5. What is food? / David R. Briggs and Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Pt. II. CONTEMPORARY FOOD USE -- 6. Food supply systems / Gwyn P. Jones -- 7. Trends in the available food supply / Ingrid H.E. Rutishauser -- 8. Current food consumption / Ingrid H.E. Rutishauser -- Pt. III. FOOD COMPOSITION, PROCESSING, REGULATION AND SAFETY -- 9. 10. & 11. Food composition Food processing Food preparation / Gwyn P. Jones -- 12. Food microbiology and food poisoning / David R. Briggs and Louise B. Lennard -- 13. & 14. Naturally occurring toxicants and food contaminants Food additives / David R. Briggs -- 15. Real and perceived risks in food / David R. Briggs and Louise B. Lennard -- 16. Food law, regulation and surveillance in Australia / David R. Briggs -- 17. Food law and regulation: an international perspective / David R. Briggs and Louise B. Lennard -- Pt. IV. THE BIOLOGY OF FOOD COMPONENTS -- 18. 19. & 20. Food energy and energy expenditure Digestion of food Protein / Richard S.D. Read -- 21. 22. & 23. Carbohydrates Fats Dietary fibre and resistant starch / Gwyn P. Jones -- 24. Vitamins and vitamin-like compounds / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- 25. & 26. Minerals Water / Gwyn P. Jones -- Pt. V LIFESPAN NUTRITION -- 27. 28. & 29. Pregnancy and lactation Infant nutrition Childhood and adolescence / Ingrid H.E. Rutishauser -- 30. Foods, physical activity and sport / Richard S.D. Read and Antigone Kouris-Blazos -- 31. Survival nutrition / Richard S.D. Read and Gwyn P. Jones -- 32. Requirements in maturity and ageing / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Pt. VI. FOODS AND DISEASE -- 33. Genetic individuality, diet and disease / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- 34. Protein energy malnutrition / Madeleine Ball -- 35. Overweight and obesity / Richard S.D. Read and Antigone Kouris-Blazos -- 36. Eating disorders / Richard S.D. Read -- 37. 38. & 39. Atherosclerotic vascular disease and hypertension Diabetes Alcohol and alcohol related diseases / Madeleine Ball -- 40. & 41. Nutrition, infection and immune function Nutrition and cancer / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- 42. Nutrition and osteoporosis / Mark L. Wahlqvist and Naiyana Wattanapenpaiboon -- 43. Food sensitivities / David R. Briggs and Louise B. Lennard -- 44. Nutritional disease related to poverty, famine and organic disease / Madeleine Ball -- 45. & 46. Nutritional problems related to cultural and environmental transition Nutrition and health problems related to substance abuse and medications / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- Pt. VII. NUTRITION MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE -- 47. 48. & 49. Monitoring food and nutrition status at the population level Assessment of nutritional status in the individual Nutritional standards of reference / Ingrid H.E. Rutishauser -- Pt. VIII. PRIMARY HEALTH CARE AND NUTRITION -- 50. Health promotion and nutrition / Patricia A. Crotty -- 51. Nutrition in primary health care / Madeleine Ball and Iain Robertson -- 52. Dietary advice and food guidance systems / Mark L. Wahlqvist and Antigone Kouris-Blazos -- Pt. IX. FOOD PRODUCTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 53. & 54. Food, population and development Sustainable environments / Richard S.D. Read -- 55. Food and nutrition policies / Mark L. Wahlqvist
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography
Subject Food -- Analysis.
Food -- Australia.
Food.
Nutrition -- Evaluation.
Nutrition -- Australia.
Nutrition.
Food Analysis.
Food.
Nutrition Assessment.
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
Nutrition
Nutrition
SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Author Wahlqvist, Mark L.
ISBN 1864482206