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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158690003321

Autore

Simopoulos A.P

Titolo

Nutritional Triggers for Health and in Disease / /  editor, A.P. Simopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel : , : S. Karger, , 1992

ISBN

9783318042511

331804251X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X + 202 pages) : :   41 figures, 22 tables

Collana

Issn Series

Altri autori (Persone)

SimopoulosArtemis P. <1933->

Disciplina

612.3 s

616.3/9

Soggetti

Nutrition

Clinical Nutrition

Dietetics

Immunology

Metabolic Diseases

Metabolism

Pediatrics

Physiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

978-3-8055-5265-3_Cover -- 978-3-8055-5265-3_00I -- 978-3-8055-5265-3_001 -- 978-3-8055-5265-3_040 -- 978-3-8055-5265-3_114 -- 978-3-8055-5265-3_140 -- 978-3-8055-5265-3_198.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume consists of four reviews on subjects basic to nutrition and dietetics that are interrelated in terms of taste, malnutrition, immunology, milk-feeding models, and rickets, a disease which is viewed not simply as a nutritional disorder but as a specific complex disease of the tropics. in the management of food intake and food selection, while the second paper provides a complete evaluation of the piglet as a model for infant feeding. The third paper discusses the role of nutrients to enhance the complement system in order to induce resistance to infection in malnutrition. Finally, rickets is reviewed in



terms of epidemiologic, metabolic, genetic and religious factors, and in relation to vitamin A deficiency, iron deficiency and thalassemia.