1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970496003321

Titolo

Dietary reference intakes for vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, and carotenoids : a report of the Panel on Dietary Antioxidants and Related Compounds, Subcommittees on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients and of Interpretation and Use of Dietary Reference Intakes, and the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2000

ISBN

9780309597197

0309597196

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (529 p.)

Disciplina

612.3/9

Soggetti

Antioxidants

Reference values (Medicine)

Vitamin C

Vitamin E

Carotenoids

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Front Matter; Preface; Contents; Summary; 1 Introduction to Dietary Reference Intakes; 2 Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, and -Carotene and Other Carotenoids: Overview, Antioxidant Definition, and Relationship to Chronic Disease; 3 Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, and -Carotene and Other Carotenoids: Methods; 4 A Model for the Development of Tolerable Upper Intake Levels for Nutrients; 5 Vitamin C; 6 Vitamin E; 7 Selenium; 8 -Carotene and Other Carotenoids; 9 Uses of Dietary Reference Intakes; 10 A Research Agenda; A Origin and Framework of the Development of Dietary Reference Intakes

B AcknowledgmentsC Dietary Intake Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), 1988-1994; D Dietary Intake Data from the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII), 1994-1996; E Canadian Dietary Intake Data, 1993, 1995; F Serum Values from the Third National Health and Nutrition



Examination Survey (NHANES III), 1988-1994; G Options for Dealing with Uncertainties; H Glossary and Acronyms; I Biographical Sketches of Panel and Subcommittee Members; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is the newest release in the authoritative series of quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets for healthy people. Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) is the newest framework for an expanded approach developed by U.S. and Canadian scientists. This book discusses in detail the role of vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, and the carotenoids in human physiology and health. For each nutrient the committee presents what is known about how it functions in the human body, which factors may affect how it works, and how the nutrient may be related to chronic disease. Dietary Reference Intakes provides reference intakes, such as Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs), for use in planning nutritionally adequate diets for different groups based on age and gender, along with a new reference intake, the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL), designed to assist an individual in knowing how much is "too much" of a nutrient.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956998003321

Autore

Mitchell Peta

Titolo

Contagious metaphor / Peta Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2012

ISBN

9781472542335

1472542339

9781283853378

128385337X

9781441197436

1441197435

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

808.032

Soggetti

Metaphor - Social aspects

Metaphor in literature

Contagion (Social psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Contagious metaphor -- Pestilence and poison winds: literary contagions and the endurance of miasma theory -- The French fin de siecle and the birth of social contagion theory -- The contagion of example -- Infectious ideas: Dawkins, meme theory, and the politics of metaphor -- Networks of contagion

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Due Preparations -- 1. Contagious metaphor -- 2. Pestilence and poison winds: Literary contagions and the endurance of miasma theory -- 3. The French fin de siècle and the birth of social contagion theory -- 4. The contagion of example -- 5. Infectious ideas: Richard Dawkins, meme theory, and the politics of metaphor -- 6. Networks of contagion -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The metaphor of contagion pervades critical discourse across the humanities, the medical sciences, and the social sciences. It appears in such terms as 'social contagion' in psychology, 'financial contagion' in economics, 'viral marketing' in business, and even 'cultural contagion' in anthropology. In the twenty-first century, contagion, or 'thought contagion' has become a byword for creativity and a fundamental process by which knowledge and ideas are communicated and taken up, and resonates with André Siegfried's observation that 'there is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas'. In Contagious Metaphor, Peta Mitchell offers an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the metaphor of contagion and its relationship to the workings of language. Examining both metaphors of contagion and metaphor as contagion, Contagious Metaphor suggests a framework through which the emergence and often epidemic-like reproduction of metaphor can be better understood