Nutrition : A comprehensive treatise. Vol. 3: Nutritional status: Assessment and application

368 Pages·1966·8.136 MB·English

by  George H Beaton, Earle Willard McHenry

NUTRITION
A Comprehensive Treatise
VOLUME III
NUTRITIONAL STATUS: ASSESSMENT AND APPLICATION
Contributors to Volume III
W. T. W. CLARKE
J. H. EBBS
F. E. HYTTEN
W. N. PEARSON
ELIZABETH CHANT ROBERTSON
ARNOLD E. SCHAEFER
A. M. THOMSON
DONALD M. WATKIN
N U T R I T I ON
A Comprehensive Treatise
EDITED BY
GEORGE H. BEATON
Department of Nutrition
School of Hygiene
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
AND
EARLE WILLARD MCHENRY
V O L U ME II I
NUTRITIONAL STATUS:
ASSESSMENT AND APPLICATION
1966
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To Professor Earle Willard McHenry
Teacher, scientist, and friend,
and to
the unknown men and women in all parts of the
world who must apply this fundamental knowledge
of nutrition in the day-to-day task of treating and
preventing malnutrition.
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List of Contributors
Numbers in parentheses indicate the pages on which the authors' contributions
begin.
W. T. W. CLARKE, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; De
partment of Nutrition, School of Hygiene, University of Toronto;
Department of Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
(187)
J. H. EBBS, University of Toronto, and The Hospital for Sick Children,
Toronto, Canada (1)
F. E. HYTTEN,* Obstetric Medicine Research Unit (Medical Research
Council), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland (103)
W. N. PEARSON, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville,
Tennessee (265)
ELIZABETH CHANT ROBERTSON, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick
Children, Toronto, Canada (43)
ARNOLD E. SCHAEFER, Nutrition Section, Office of International Research,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland (217)
A. M. THOMSON,* Obstetric Medicine Research Unit (Medical Research
Council), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland (103)
DONALD M. WATKIN, Consultant, Nutrition Section, Office of International
Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland (147)
* Present address: Reproduction and Growth Research Unit (Medical Research
Council), Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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Preface
The present volume represents the final one of this treatise. It is
hoped that the reader will agree that the somewhat different approach
of the editors in planning this treatise has been profitable. In this final
volume, attention has been directed toward the application of the basic
information reviewed in the preceding volumes. This is perhaps the most
difficult, and most speculative, area of nutrition; it is perhaps also the
most important and most challenging area. In the preceding volumes,
the metabolism, function, and requirement of the individual nutrients
have been discussed; in this volume, the authors were invited to con
sider a number of nutrients in a discussion of one area of application.
While this approach necessitates an unavoidable overlapping of discus
sions between this and preceding volumes, it also places the preceding
discussions in a new perspective and forms a logical conclusion to the
treatise. Before proceeding into this area of application, the reader would
be well advised to review the chapters "Nutrition Adaptation" and
"Causes and Prevention of Malnutrition" in Volume II.
In this treatise the editors encouraged a full discussion of a limited
number of topics. This has permitted each author to interpret as well as
to tabulate recent research findings. The reader was cautioned in Volume
I to approach these discussions with a critical mind since it is freely
admitted, by authors and by editor, that differences of opinion about
these interpretations still exist. However, this is not a "textbook"; as such,
it would have been of little use to the audience for whom it was in
tended—the teacher, the graduate student, and the research worker.
Rather, the treatise might be compared to the proceedings of a sym
posium; in this respect it has been found by some to be of use as a basis
for graduate discussion courses. The extensive documentation has been
found to be a valuable asset to the graduate student.
Although this approach has many advantages, it also has the dis
advantage of limiting the number of individual topics that can receive
detailed attention (unless it were to grow to many more volumes). It is
recognized that many topics that are of current interest in human nutri
tion have not been included in chapter titles. The editor offers no
apology. He does regret that certain chapters originally planned for in-
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