Abstract: Historical and cultural aspects of breastfeeding are examined. Little rigorous data exists to support charges that infant malnutrition, morbidity, and mortality are related to reduction of breastfeeding. Some anthropologists criticize sociocultural models which are dev…
Abstract: A reference text for nutritionists, clinicians, and policy makers compiles the works and thoughts of laboratory scientists, medical professionals, economists, and nutrition education specialists in 33 authoritative papers concerned with the development and implementati…
Fearing food: risk, health and environment
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Environmental and consumer activists have for a long time blamed pesticides, fertilizers and other aspects of intensive farming for causing environmental degradation and human disease. Yet, as the authors in this book show, intensive farming has enabled growth in food production…
Environmental and consumer activists have for a long time blamed pesticides, fertilizers and other aspects of intensive farming for causing environmental degradation and human disease. Yet, as the authors in this book show, intensive farming has enabled growth in food production…
