Food Chains and Human Nutrition

Buch | Softcover

472 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-011-7338-4 (ISBN)

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The purpose of the third symposium organised by the Advisory Committee on Nutrition and Crop Husbandry _of the Rank Prize Funds was to explore in some depth the complex processes whereby organic and inorganic materials reach man's diet, paying particular attenti

Ecological Concepts and Their Relevance to Human Nutrition.- Man’s Demand for Energy.- World Production of Organic Matter.- Secondary Production in the Oceans.- Secondary Production from Land.- Amino Acids: Production by Plants and the Requirements of Man.- The Nitrogen Economy of Marine and Land Environments.- Man’s Impact on Environmental Systems.- Man and the Major Mineral Elements.- Uptake of Some Major Mineral Elements by Plants.- Trace Mineral Elements, Mammalian Requirements and Man’s Presumptive Needs.- Trace Elements in Soils and Plants.- Trace Elements in the Marine Environment.- Support Energy from Fossil Fuels.- Radioactive Materials.- Radioactive Materials—the Aquatic Environment.- Pesticides and Other Man-made Chemicals and the Food Chain.- Implications of the Intensification of Agriculture for Ecological Problems.- Implications for Human Health and Nutrition and the Research That Needs to be Done.- List of Participants.

Zusatzinfo	X, 472 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geisteswissenschaften
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	94-011-7338-9 / 9401173389
ISBN-13	978-94-011-7338-4 / 9789401173384
Zustand	Neuware