Children’s and teenage literature studies: general

This book presents an anthology of nutrition articles containing advice, information, and tips for achieving optimal health.

The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a federally-funded program designed to provide healthy meals and snacks to children and adults while receiving day care at participating family day care homes, traditional child care centers, afterschool facilities, adult care facilities, and emergency shelters.

In recent years, increasing attention and resources have been brought to bear on the relationship between the environment and congenital diseases.

The authoritative guide for dietetic students and both new and experienced dietitians endorsed by the British Dietetic Association Now in its sixth edition, the bestselling Manual of Dietetic Practice has been thoroughly revised and updated to include the most recent developments and research on the topic.

This stimulating volume addresses vital questions about gene/environment interactions as they affect cell health from the prenatal period through later life.

Contributions by Torsten Caeners, Phoebe Chen, Mathieu Donner, Shannon Hervey, Angela S.

Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, food and nutrition sciences have undergone a fundamental molecular transformation.

This valuable reference book covers the application of marine resources like algae, fishes, and shrimp to address food challenges of the world.

Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood is a collection of multidisciplinary scholarly essays on childhood experience.

Originally published in 1990.

In this new book, Noga Applebaum surveys science fiction novels published for children and young adults from 1980 to the present, exposing the anti-technological bias existing within a genre often associated with the celebration of technology.

This handbook for practitioners in environmental and public health, environmental management, toxicology and ecotoxicology has been prepared by an international group of experts from both developing and developed countries and covers a wide range of topics in both environmental impact assessment and environmental health impact assessment.

Diet, Inflammation, and Health introduces concepts of inflammation, the role of acute inflammatory responses in good health, and the association of chronic systemic inflammation with mental distress, cognitive decline, and chronic diseases, ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer.

Het Informatorium voor voeding en diëtetiek is een systematisch naslagwerk met alles wat men moet weten op het gebied van voeding en diëtetiek.

This collection is the first of its kind to interrogate both literal and metaphorical transatlantic exchanges of culture and ideas in nineteenth-century girls' fiction.

This text is an especially timely new text as the number of studies focusing on the impact of the Mediterranean diet on disease prevention increases every year.

This book contains the necessary knowledge and tools to incorporate nutrition into primary care practice.

A comprehensive review of the impact of dietary nutraceuticals on platelet function and its relationship to cardiovascular disease Nutraceuticals and Human Blood Platelet Function offers a summary of the most current evidence on the effects of anti-platelet factors isolated mainly from food and natural sources, their structure function relationship, bioavailability, mechanisms of actions, and also information on human trials data.

Health Protection: Principles and practice is a practical guide for practitioners working at all levels in public health and health protection, including those with a non-specialist background.

Our Earth is considered as a natural system which organizes and controls itself.

Providing a detailed examination of the issues that affect the long term health of aircrew, cabin crew and passengers, Air Travel and Health offers guidance to engineers designing aircraft in the difficult field of legislation and product liability.

This book is a guide for clinicians seeking to use metabolic approaches in the care of hospitalized patients.

This volume provides case studies conducted in Malaysia based on environmental management and the sustainable development of human and ecological systems.

Focusing on works by George Meredith, W.

This book presents different dietary patterns, some utilizing wild foods and others facing drastically changing dietary patterns, and shows their implications for health in terms of wealth, mutual assistance, food sufficiency and food diversity.

Jack Zipes presents the many faces of Little Red Riding Hood.

Children's literature is increasingly exposed to critical debate in England and America.

Promoting Responsive Feeding During Breastfeeding, Bottle-Feeding, and the Introduction to Solid Foods addresses how caregiver feeding practices and styles shape the quality and outcome of feeding interactions during infancy.

This book explores the role that some natural molecules found in fruits and vegetables, and their derivatives, play in excessive oxidation reactions that lead to inflammation in the human body.

This Brief explains and discusses honey and its production from a chemical perspective.

We can not talk about commodity production without building up all the operations after harvest.

Recent research findings on the impact of nutrition on telomere length is unlocking the potential to combat premature aging at the cellular level.

To achieve and maintain optimal health, it is essential that the vitamins in foods are present in sufficient quantity and are in a form that the body can assimilate.

The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature.

Interest in anthocyanins has increased in the past few years, due to their potential health-promoting properties as dietary antioxidants.

In this book Donovan Roebert provides a path for Christians and Buddhists who wish to better understand the essential, living tenets of their own faith while exploring how these two great religious paths can provide insights of real benefit to adherents of either.

This volume presents information regarding the mechanisms of protein absorption under normal and pathologic conditions, in addition to reviewing changes that occur at various stages of life.

This heavily revised second edition comprehensively examines the causes and effects of obesity, both on the human body as well as society as a whole.

The integration of biology, genomics, and health has opened the possibility of applying genomics technology to nutrition.

Carnitine Metabolism and Human Nutrition offers a contemporary and in-depth look at the biological effects of carnitine metabolism and its application to clinical and sports nutrition, based on decades of robust scientific enquiry.

This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa's most prolific and groundbreaking writers, widely recognized for highlighting the everyday experiences of women and the domestic side of apartheid.

Nutraceuticals is a broad umbrella term used to describe any product derived from food sources with extra health benefits in addition to the basic nutritional value found in foods.

Food Phytates takes a new look at phytates, including their potential health benefits.