Human Nutrition A Continuing Debate 1st Edition Martin Eastwood by Martin Eastwood, Christine Edwards, Doreen Parry 9781489944955, 1489944958 instant download after payment.

Most of this volume will be concerned about the new era of science and nutrition and will cover debates on the issues relating to different nutrients. This contribution, however, does not deal with science but with national nutrition policy. When considering policy we sometimes deal only tangentially with science as an attempt is made to integrate an array of different data with the practical issues of implementation. In order to change governmental approaches to society based on the evidence we have, it is essential to make a judgement that any change proposed is going to do more good than harm. Scientists and others may delight in finding fault with a policy, either because they disagree with the scientific issue, perceive an inconsistency in the policy or fail to understand the basis for the policy because they were not part of the group evolving the new approach. If scientists wish to become involved in nutrition policy-making then its uncertainties are very different from scientific research. It is almost inevitable that there will be inconsistencies and problems in developing a particular policy.
Infant origins of common diseases -D. J. P. Barker In this paper I will present evidence which suggests that the nutrition of an infant and of its mother are much more important in the causation of cardiovascular disease than we have previously supposed. The starting point is the well known uneven distribution of deaths from ischaemic heart disease in England and Wales. Essentially the pattern is of low rates right through the South of England including London, which is a point of considerable importance, and high rates in two kinds of area in the north — industrial towns and in some rural areas which have the poorest agricultural soil in the country (Gardner et al., 1969, 1984). The pattern of stroke mortality is similar to that of ischaemic heart disease. Furthermore this pattern is specific to cardiovascular disease...