Infant Nutrition in the Sub-tropics and Tropics
Infant Nutrition in the Sub-tropics and Tropics

Author: Derrick Brian Jelliffe

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Abstract: Children in tropical and subtropical, technically underdeveloped areas of the world suffer from malnutrition as a result of poverty, unavailability of suitable food, lack of knowledge and superstition. Education and assistance is needed as part of the general attempt to raise the standard of living with a resultant tendency to limitation of family size and drop in the birth-rate. The nutritional level of the community and its young children is positively related to the educational and economic level of the community, to the availablity of sufficient food of the right quality and to the adequacy and accessibility of the health services. The problems of infant nutrition are dealt with from the point of view of the health worker in the field. The viewpoint is that an understanding of methods and approaches to food problems by active, community committees is often the prime nutritional need in developing countries.

Current Catalog
Current Catalog

Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13:

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Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.

Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific
Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific

Author: Leslie B. Marshall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-16

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1134284578

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First Published in 1985. This is Volume 3 of a series on Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology. In the aftermath of the controversial marketing of infant formula in the Third World, this volume describes infant care and feeding practices within their social, cultural and physical context among fourteen different Melanesian and Polynesian societies. The contributors address such issues as health and nutritional status, women's roles and social support, early socialization, symbolism and meaning of foods and feeding and intracultural variability. The material is valuable to health professionals, nutritionists and social scientists in understanding infant care and feeding practices in underdeveloped regions.

Nutrition
Nutrition

Author: M. Winick

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 146157210X

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The science of nutrition has advanced beyond expectation since Antoine La voisier as early as the 18th century showed that oxygen was necessary to change nutrients in foods to compounds which would become a part of the human body. He was also the first to measure metabolism and to show that oxidation within the body produces heat and energy. In the two hundred years that have elapsed, the essentiality of nitrogen-containing nutrients and of proteins for growth and maintenance of tissue has been established; the ne cessity for carbohydrates and certain types of fat for health has been docu mented; vitamins necessary to prevent deficiency diseases have been identified and isolated; and the requirement of many mineral elements for health has been demonstrated. Further investigations have defined the role of these nutrients in metabolic processes and quantitated their requirements at various stages of development. Additional studies have involved their use in the possible prevention of, and therapy for, disease conditions.