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Nutritional management
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Nutritional Management. MACKENZIEWALSER, ANTHONY L IMBEMBO, SIMEONMARGOLIS and GLORIA A ELFERT. Toronto: Saunders, pp 391, 1984, Cdn $37.75. The 25 contributors to this volume are based at the Johns Hopkins institutions and the contents are derived from current practice in those hospitals and clinics. The editors comment that books on nutrition range from applied dietetic manuals to scholarly discussions of academic nutritional facts and figures. They have attempted the impossible task of combining the two types of books into this lean volume and they have failed. There is much bias in presentation of material and concepts developed and in vogue at other equally prestigious places are ignored. The appendices are largely borrowed from other manuals on the subject. The price is too high for a 'pocket book' to be used on the floor of hospitals. Annual Review of Nutrition. Volume 4, pp 562, 1984, WILLIAM J DARBY, HARRY P BROQUIST and ROBERT E OLSON. Volume 5, pp 484, 1986, ROBERT E OLSON, ERNEST BEUTLERand HARRY P BROQUIST, editors. Palo Alto: Annuals Reviews, $ 27.00 each. These two volumes continue the excellent tradition set by other series published by the same house. The subjects are well chosen and cover a wide range of f i e l d in the nutritional sciences. The contributors are well known for their work in the chosen topics. Some of the subjects covered include vitamins K, B6 and D, ultra trace elements, fluoride, fatty acids in halogenated oils, home parenteral nutrition, calcium and osteoporosis, food allergy, body size and enrgy metabolism, dietary regulation of lipoprotein metabolism, lipid perodixation, zinc and reproduction, nutrition intervention programs, celiac disease, and foodborne pathogens. Most of the contributions are of above average quality. Some are rehash of other published reviews. Overall, the volumes are well worth the price. The page of contents is rather puzzling, jumping from one end of the book to the other. Perhaps the publisher has tried to combine a table of contents with a brief index! Experimental AssesSments and Clinical AppliCations of Conditioned Food Aversions. NORMANS BRAVE~N and PAULBRONSTEIN, editors, pp 437, New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1985. The conference proceedings describe the associative processes in the formation of conditioned food aversions, physiological substrates, comparative approaches to learning, foraging, and toxiphobia, pharmacological and toxicological assessments using food aversion methodology, and applications of conditioned food aversion methodology. Most of the contributions focus on animal work and the description of human food aversions are based on limited data on small samples. An unusual feature of the volume is a bibliographic compedium listing about 1,575 references! Biotin. KRISHNAMURTI DAKSHINAMURTI and HEMMIGE N BHAGAVAN, editors. New York: York Academy of Sciences. pp 435, 1985, $100.00. In the 40 years since the isolation of biotin, there is considerable documentation of the 'essentiality' of this nutrient. Clinical deficiency features are recognized and the vitamin plays a key role in metabolic processes. The conference provided an excellent forum for presentations on cellular functions and nutritional aspects of biotin, role of biotin in enzyme action and the use of biotin as a molecular probe. For researchers in this f i e l d , the volume is an invaluable source of recent references and critical review of published material. Considering the financial support received for the meeting and the size of the book, the price is rather exhorbitant.
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Nutritional Management. MACKENZIEWALSER, ANTHONY L IMBEMBO, SIMEONMARGOLIS and GLORIA A ELFERT. Toronto: Saunders, pp 391, 1984, Cdn $37.75. The 25 contributors to this volume are based at the Johns Hopkins institutions and the contents are derived from current practice in those hospitals and clinics. The editors comment that books on nutrition range from applied dietetic manuals to scholarly discussions of academic nutritional facts and figures. They have attempted the impossible task of combining the two types of books into this lean volume and they have failed. There is much bias in presentation of material and concepts developed and in vogue at other equally prestigious places are ignored. The appendices are largely borrowed from other manuals on the subject. The price is too high for a 'pocket book' to be used on the floor of hospitals. Annual Review of Nutrition. Volume 4, pp 562, 1984, WILLIAM J DARBY, HARRY P BROQUIST and ROBERT E OLSON. Volume 5, pp 484, 1986, ROBERT E OLSON, ERNEST BEUTLERand HARRY P BROQUIST, editors. Palo Alto: Annuals Reviews, $ 27.00 each. These two volumes continue the excellent tradition set by other series published by the same house. The subjects are well chosen and cover a wide range of f i e l d in the nutritional sciences. The contributors are well known for their work in the chosen topics. Some of the subjects covered include vitamins K, B6 and D, ultra trace elements, fluoride, fatty acids in halogenated oils, home parenteral nutrition, calcium and osteoporosis, food allergy, body size and enrgy metabolism, dietary regulation of lipoprotein metabolism, lipid perodixation, zinc and reproduction, nutrition intervention programs, celiac disease, and foodborne pathogens. Most of the contributions are of above average quality. Some are rehash of other published reviews. Overall, the volumes are well worth the price. The page of contents is rather puzzling, jumping from one end of the book to the other. Perhaps the publisher has tried to combine a table of contents with a brief index! Experimental AssesSments and Clinical AppliCations of Conditioned Food Aversions. NORMANS BRAVE~N and PAULBRONSTEIN, editors, pp 437, New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1985. The conference proceedings describe the associative processes in the formation of conditioned food aversions, physiological substrates, comparative approaches to learning, foraging, and toxiphobia, pharmacological and toxicological assessments using food aversion methodology, and applications of conditioned food aversion methodology. Most of the contributions focus on animal work and the description of human food aversions are based on limited data on small samples. An unusual feature of the volume is a bibliographic compedium listing about 1,575 references! Biotin. KRISHNAMURTI DAKSHINAMURTI and HEMMIGE N BHAGAVAN, editors. New York: York Academy of Sciences. pp 435, 1985, $100.00. In the 40 years since the isolation of biotin, there is considerable documentation of the 'essentiality' of this nutrient. Clinical deficiency features are recognized and the vitamin plays a key role in metabolic processes. The conference provided an excellent forum for presentations on cellular functions and nutritional aspects of biotin, role of biotin in enzyme action and the use of biotin as a molecular probe. For researchers in this f i e l d , the volume is an invaluable source of recent references and critical review of published material. Considering the financial support received for the meeting and the size of the book, the price is rather exhorbitant.