Personal and public health / health education

Algae are important organisms that include seaweeds and a number of single-celled and multicellular microscopic forms.

Since all-out interstate wars for the time being seem to belong to the past, con- flict studies focus more and more on domestic conflicts.

Herpesviruses, classified in the family Herpesviridae, are important human and animal pathogens that can cause primary, latent or recurrent infections and even cancer.

During the last few years, there has been growing medical interest in the problem of obesity.

Parents and ancestors are always important: they endow us with a genetic inheritance for better or for worse, for the balanced diet, for overfeeding or for starvation.

Throughout the history of mankind from primitive man to the present time, vitamin ddiciencies have been a major cause of death and disease.

Obesity in affluent countries continues to be a serious problem.

This book has been designed, as its title implies, as a practical book for medical practitioners, although it should be of interest to medical students and nutritionists.

Parenteral nutrition has been one of the most significant therapeutic advances of the past twenty years.

The older population, defined as those 65 years and older, has been steadily increasing as a percentage of the total population since 1900.

This new fourth edition of the Nutrition and Diet Therapy Reference Dictionary covers all aspects of nutrition, including assessment of drug-nutrient interactions, laboratory interpretations, enteral and parenteral nutrition support, community and public health nutrition programs, nutrition throughout the life cycle, and such topics as nutrition and the immune system, nutrition labeling, chemical dependency, AIDS, and organ transplantation.

All forms of life require food materials in certain minimum amounts to insure an active life and successful reproduction.

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When we learn from a patient, clinician, or medical record that a drug has been discontinued, it is logical to ask why.

The advent of any new and effective therapy is soon followed by large numbers of publications in which the indications and benefits are explored critically.

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This new volume deals with a number of important and current topics in human nutrition that we hope will be of general interest to those concerned with this subject.

The Kellogg Company ranks among the world's leading food manufacturers, and it follows, therefore, that our corporate policies are important to human health.

Generation of oxidants or reactive oxygen species is a natural process of human biology.

As Japan comes to grips with a decade of economic malaise after its spectacular post-war growth record, how will Japanese society react?

The International Society for Quality of Life Studies held its first conference in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1997.

Most Asian countries have shown a strong commitment to rapid economic development.

The European Cancer Prevention Organization (ECP) was established in 1981 with the objective of developing studies of the aetiology and preven- tion of cancer through concerted-action European collaborative studies.

This book offers an insightful exploration into the relationship between diet and Multiple Sclerosis (MS), aiming to address a crucial question: Can dietary interventions serve as effective preventative and therapeutic measures for patients with MS?

Nitrogen is the most limiting element for crop production.

Iron is a key element in nutrition.

For many years, what has been known about recovery from addictive behaviors has come solely from treatment studies.

Seeing a patient die under his hands because there is no adequate treatment causes an emotion and a frustration in a doctor, which sometimes stimulates him to try to develop a new type of treatment.

This book is concerned with the universality of wellbeing indicators.

This book is concerned with the question of inequality - which points to a major structural problem in intra-national and inter-national respect.

Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy presents a series of papers that address the political consequences of globalization for states and their populations, while exploring the issue of alternatives to the model of globalization we are presently experiencing.

Workers' compensation data in a large public sector human service agency clearly indicated that the most significant type ofcompensable incident that occurred within the organisation was that ofanxiety and stress related conditions.

A variety of psychological traditions and methodological approaches formed a body of human error research in different parts of Europe.

Cereals belong to the most important elements in the history of mankind.

Water is recognized as being an important factor in numerous pheno- mena connected with the quality of food.

South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy has gained it world recognition.

Legumes are an important source of protein for humans and animals.

Coronary heart disease is a major cause of death in the Western World and increasingly elsewhere.

This book discusses the natural and anthropogenic determinants of the environment and their impact on human health.

Human demand for energy has grown multi-folds in recent years.

This publication addresses the gender dimensions of people's lived experience and emphasizes how gender relationships differentially impact on women's and girls' as well as men's and boys' subjective well-being across the lifespan.

This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress.

This book explores the broad view on child well-being and the quality of life research.

This volume integrates and makes sense of the growing body of theoretical and empirical research conducted on purpose across the lifespan.

Agroecology not only encompasses aspects of ecology, but the ecology of sustainable food production systems, and related societal and cultural values.

This volume provides an overview of the research describing the effects of child maltreatment on mental health, cognitive and social-emotional development.

This book presents recent findings about the consequences and policy implications of economic stress for human capital development and family well-being in Asia.

This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world.