Health & Fitness : Nutrition

Nutrition in Early Life is a comprehensive authoritative text providing an in-depth scientific basis for nutrition during prenatal, postnatal and childhood growth and development. The book is an up-to-date reference for all those seeking to understand the application of science in support of a successful outcome of the reproductive cycle. It has a strong public health emphasis, dealing with nutritionally related health promotion issues from the fetus to maturity. Additionally, the book includes key practical guidelines for good nutritional practice in chapter twelve. more...

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For years scientists have searched for a 'magic bullet' to relieve the pain of depression and other mood disorders - safe enough for nursing mothers, children with ADHD, and the elderly, without the side effects associated with medicines like Prozac, Zoloft, and lithium. Now the search may finally be over, thanks to the Omega-3 Renewal Plan, introduced here by Andrew L. Stoll, M.D., Director of the Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory at Harvard's McLean Hospital. more...

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This title covers the full range of substances in foods considered to have a protective and positive health effect. Contents include detailed information on major foods and beverages, the content and role of protective substances within them, the effects of food processing and public health issues. more...

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Professor Lacey is an internationally renowned microbiologist and World Health Organisation adviser. In Poison on a Plate he demonstrates how the pursuit of profits by business and a lack of protection from the government has threatened the safety of eating. He also offers advice on how to eat safely. more...

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The risk assessment approach described in this monograph applies only to essential trace elements (ETEs) involved in human health and not to non-essential elements. The purpose of this monograph is to provide the scientific principles that support the concept of an ''acceptable range of oral intake'' (AROI), which uses a ''homeostatic model'' for determining the range of dietary intakes for essential trace elements (ETEs) that meet the nutritional requirements of a healthy population and avoid excess intakes. To facilitate comparisons, AROIs are discussed in relation to other risk assessment approaches. Although it includes examples, this monograph is not a compendium of assessments on ETEs, nor is it a textbook detailing the scientific basis of risk assessment of the derivation of dietary reference intakes. Described in the book is the process of risk assessment which begins with the selection of the database for a particular ETE. A weight-of-evidence approach is then used for hazard identification, selecting relevant end-point of deficient and excess exposures. Next, the probability of risk and the severity of various effects are quantified and critical effects are selected. The AROI is then established by balancing end-points of comparable health significance. At this time, the exposure assessment is conducted. Finally, a risk characterization enumerating the strengths and weaknesses of the databases is performed, integrating the AROI and exposure assessment. ''... The amount of work which is entailed in these volumes is very great and the low cost does not reflect the time of experts, travelling, nor even the hours expended UN staff in Geneva... This well informed book with its predecessors in the series is essential reading for biologists, chemists and medical professionals concerned with essential trace elements.'' more...

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