Children’s and teenage literature studies: general

Childhood obesity has become a central concern in many countries and a range of policies have been implemented or proposed to address it.

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people.

Foods and Dietary Supplements in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease in Older Adults focuses on the ways in which food and dietary supplements affect the major health problems of aging adults.

Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in works of fiction.

Year on year, countries across the world continue to see an increase in life expectancy, largely attributed to the impact of modern medicine and disease eradication.

This text comprehensively covers the nutritional and medical management and prevention of kidney stones.

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

Die auf 2 Bände angelegte Bibliografie hebräischer und deutsch-jüdischer Kinder- und Jugendtexte ist ein einzigartiges Monument jüdischen Lebens in Deutschland.

Food safety awareness is at an all time high, new and emerging threats to the food supply are being recognized, and consumers are eating more and more meals prepared outside of the home.

Multicultural Handbook of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics is the must have practical resource for dietitians, nutritionists and students working with both well settled but also recently migrated ethnic groups.

Bone research in recent years has generated much new knowledge, in large measure because of the broad public health implications of osteoporosis and related bone disorders.

Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children's and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

Nearly 800 million people in the world do not have enough to eat.

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries?

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is recognized as a crucial signaling molecule that mediates physiological and biochemical processes in plants, regulating various development and stress responses.

Of the many dietary factors associated with inflammation and oxidative stress, a specific group are food-derived pro-inflammatory and pro-oxidant compounds, so-called advanced glycation end products (AGEs).

Taking a comparative approach, this book investigates the ways that obesity and its susceptibilities are framed in science and policy.

This book presents the background and context of an urban health issue, research findings, and recommendations for policy/decision-makers and action-takers.

Childhood obesity has become a central concern in many countries and a range of policies have been implemented or proposed to address it.

Der Band erkundet den wenig beachteten kulturellen Transfer in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und ihren Medien mit Mittel-, Südost- und Osteuropa.

You can't escape the ageing process but you can slow it down.

COMPANION VOLUME TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE FAT FLUSH PLANThe popular weight-loss program now has a companion cookbook"e;(Ann Louise Gittleman's) rundown of the therapeutic and culinary benefits of her favorite 25 cooking herbs makes a perfect introduction to her popular nutritional philosophy.

Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment A concise and engaging overview of endocrine disruption phenomena that brings complex concepts within the reach of non-specialists For most of the last decade, the science of endocrine disruption has evolved with more definitive evidence of its damaging potential to health and environment.

During the past century the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States have shifted from those related to communicable diseases to those due to chronic diseases.

Advances in Macrofungi: Diversity, Ecology and Biotechnology discusses the diversity and ecology of edible, toxic, medicinal and mycorrhizal macrofungi; the impact of ectomycorrhizal fungi in terrestrial ecosystems, ectomycorrhizal complex in Boreal forests and commercial application of Pseudotsuga in silviculture; the nutritional evaluation and cultivation of edible wild mushrooms; the diversity of novel metabolites of macrofungi useful in food, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical industries; mushrooms as tool for eco-friendly synthesis of nanoparticles and proteomics of edible and medicinal mushrooms.

There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades.

First published in 1998, this volume explores how the genre of school stories had become firmly established by the turn of the twentieth century, having been built on the foundations laid by writers such as Thomas Hughes and F.

Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl explosion, disaster struck once again after a tsunami overwhelmed the considerable safety measures at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.

Asia is the world's most populous region and has the highest per capita number of older people in the world.

Animal products are good source of disposable income for many small farmers in developing countries.

This book demonstrates the importance and potential role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in foreseeing and curbing future global pandemics.

Nuts and Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention, Second Edition investigates the benefits of nuts and seeds in health and disease prevention using an organizational style that will provide easy-access to information that supports identifying treatment options and the development of symptom-specific functional foods.

This book presents studies of the main conditions that affect health and well-being of old people.

This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies.

Although acute inflammation is a healthy physiological response indicative of wound healing, chronic inflammation has been directly implicated in a wide range of degenerative human health disorders encompassing almost all present day non-communicable diseases including autoimmune diseases, obesity, diabetes and atherosclerosis.

Eating enough food to meet nutritional needs and maintain good health and good performance in all aspects of lifeboth at home and on the jobis important for all of us throughout our lives.

The Nutrition and Health Series of books have had great success because each volume has the consistent overriding mission of providing health professionals with texts that are essential because each includes (1) a synthesis of the state of the science; (2) timely, in-depth reviews by the leading researchers in their respective fields; (3) extensive, - to-date fully annotated reference lists; (4) a detailed index; (5) relevant tables and figures; (6) identification of paradigm shifts and the consequences; (7) virtually no overlap of information between chapters, but targeted, interchapter referrals; (8) suggestions of areas for future research; and (9) balanced, data-driven answers to patient/health prof- sionals' questions that are based on the totality of evidence rather than the findings of any single study.

This book is the product of the Conference on Nutrition and Human Reproduction, supported and organized by the National Insti- tutes of Child Health and Human Development, and held at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, in February 1977.

This book systematically reviews the history of lead-free piezoelectric materials, including the latest research.

There is increasing evidence that even minute amounts of trace elements can have profound effects on the human body.

Readers love Dr Neal Barnard's work - over 1000 5-star reviews for Your Body In Balance 'An excellent book, I loved it' Reader review 'A completely new take on nutrition!

On December 5, 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop titled Nutrigenomics and the Future of Nutrition in Washington, DC, to review current knowledge in the field of nutrigenomics as it relates to nutrition.

Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schools-at the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connected-this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach literature in middle and secondary classrooms.

Nutritional Biochemistry: A Practical Approach is a practical laboratory handy manual to cater the needs of students studying Biochemistry as a subject in different courses at various universities.

This practical guide for primary care provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good health-care delivery and provides easy-to-implement yet impactful actions that can be taken to reduce and mitigate the impact of primary care on the living world while also looking at the impact of the changing planet on health care that people will encounter.