Descartes is to blame. For centuries his tag "I think therefore I am" has dominated our notion of ourselves and the world that the mind is what counts seems to be the message of Cartesianism, the body could fend for itself. What people thought has been central to academic study,…
Descartes is to blame. For centuries his tag "I think therefore I am" has dominated our notion of ourselves and the world that the mind is what counts seems to be the message of Cartesianism, the body could fend for itself. What people thought has been central to academic study,…
Covers the whole field of nutrition. Describes the major foods and nutrients and their functions in healthy humans of all ages, and the nutritional management of clinical disease states. Takes into account current problems facing nutritionists: the fact that disease prevalence i…
In this book attention is paid to the changing outlook of man on agriculture and food. This resulted in a different attitude, which led to industrialization, internalization and food crisis. The role of women and rural societies is examined and the modern ways to escape from the…
"This is the third, thoroughly revised and updated edition of the book formerly entitled Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice. The protocols address key clinical conditions and circumstances likely to be encountered by a hospital nurse caring for older adults. They repr…
Metabolic and Therapeutic Aspects of Amino Acids in Clinical Nutrition, Second Edition presents current information and discussions on amino acid metabolism in various health and nutritional states. Chapters cover amino acid uptake routes, physiology, requirements, metabolism, a…
Sports nutrition: from lab to kitchen
This text offers a social perspective on food, food practices, and the modern food system. It highlights several paradoxes: how food is both mundane and sacred, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary global era, comes from everywhere but nowhere in par…
This introductory text takes a multidisciplinary approach to studying the relationship between plants and people. The authors strive to stimulate interest in plant science and encourage students to further their studies in botany. Also, by exposing students to society's histor…
This book compiles the scientific content of the International Symposium on Energy & Protein Metabolism and Nutrition, in Rostock-Warnemünde 13th-18th September 2003. Specialists from all over the world working in energy and protein metabolism research were assembled to discuss …
Global food security: ethical and legal challenges: EurSafe 2010, Bilbao, Spain, 16-18 September 2010
by Escajedo San Epifanio, Leire,, jurist, European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, Romeo Casabona, Carlos María, European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, EurSafe 2010, Bilbao)
Food security will exist when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (as stated in the Rome Declaration in 1996). Given the dimension of …
