Human nutrition
Subtitle: historic and scientific.
Publisher: International Universities Press
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Food habits.; Nutrition.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Howard Reid Craig; title: Introduction / Charles G. King; title: Conference orientation / Iago Galdston; title: Food habits in Latin America : a preliminary historical survey / Richard N. Adams; title: Food and food habits in Alaska and Northern Canada / Vilhjalmur Stefansson; title: Food and society in China and India / Karl A. Wittfogel; title: Nutrition from classical antiquity to the Baroque / Owsei Temkin; title: From Lavoisier to Beaumont and Hopkins / E.W. McHenry; title: From Hopkins to the present / Elmer V. McCollum; title: Development of improved crops / Henry A. Wallace; title: Principles and problems of increasing food crops and animals in low-production areas / J. George Harrar; title: Effect of processing on the nutritive value of foods / David B. Hand; title: The meat industry / Herbert E. Robinson; title: The development of dairy products / Leonard A. Maynard; title: Nutrition and population pressures / Fairfield Osborn; title: Health in the perspective of nutrition / W. Henry Sebrell, Jr.; title: Implementing nutrition concepts in medicine and public health / Fredrick J. Stare; title: Toward a philosophy for nutrition / Howard A. Schneider; title: The influence of hormones on metabolic demands and subsequent alterations in nutritional requirements / Herbert Pollack; title: Nutritional factors in the regulation of fat metabolism / Jules Hirsch; title: Epidemiology of protein malnutrition / Moiseś Beh́ar and Nevin S. Scrimshaw; title: Nutrition in the early development phase / Paul Gyor̈gy; title: Research prospectives in nutrition : the nucleus of the problem / Max A. Lauffer; title: New horizons in research / Charles G. King.