Current perspectives on nutrition and health / edited by Kenneth K. Carroll.
| Other author | Carroll, K. K. (Kenneth Kitchener) |
| Other author | Royal Society of Canada. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Montreal ; Buffalo, [N.Y.] : Royal Society of Canada by McGill-Queen's University Press, |
| Description | xvii, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Keynote address. Evolution of nutrition research in Britain and other European countries / W. Philip T. James. Diet and cardiovascular disease. Perspectives from Eastern Europe / Sushma Palmer, Rudolf Poledne -- Diet and cardiovascular disease: the Nordic experience / Pirjo Pietinen -- Diet and cardiovascular disease: a South Pacific perspective / Jim Mann -- Pathogenic and protective nutritional factors in coronary heart disease / Sonja L. Connor, William E. Connor. Diet and selected health problems. Diet and hypertension / S. George Carruthers -- Role of diet in chronic renal disease progression / Bertram L. Kasiske -- Diet and obesity / Angelo Tremblay, Sylvie St-Pierre, Jean-Pierre Després -- Diet and diabetes / Thomas M.S. Wolever. Diet and health maintenance. Diet in relation to osteoporosis / Jonathan D. Adachi, Alexandra Papaioannou, George Ioannidis -- Nutrition in relation to alcohol use / Harold Kalant -- Role of diet in health maintenance throughout life / Ernst L. Wynder, Joshua E. Muscat -- Nutritional problems of the elderly / Guylaine Ferland. Diet and cancer. Dietary mutagens and carcinogens: heterocyclic amines / Keiji Wakabayashi / Nutrition in relation to stomach cancer and stroke mortality / Jozef Victor Joossens, Hugo Kesteloot -- Epidemiology of breast and colon cancers: old risk factors, new mechanisms? / Gail McKeown-Eyssen, M. Elisabeth Del Guidice -- Cancer: influences of fat and calories / David Kritchevsky. Priorities for nutrition research in Canada. Nutrition for health: an agenda for action / Heather Nielsen. |
| General note | " ... proceedings of the symposium, which was held in the Richard Ivey School of Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario 16-19 June 1996." - foreword. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 00700402 |
| ISBN | 0773516980 (cased) |
| ISBN | 0773517243 (pbk) |
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