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This is a very simple handbook providing an elementary knowledge on Food and Nutrition. This book contains basic information in foods, nutrition, family and community nutrition as well as dietetics in a simple language to suit the requirements of the beginners.

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It is very welcoming that the Annual Reviews Inc. Palo Alto, California, USA has initiated the series on Annual Review of Nutrition, similar to the prestigious series on the Annual Review of Bio-chemistry. The first volume itself speaks of the high standard and depth of information that this review series are going to maintain. This volume is composed of 18 detailed chapters on various topics of nutrition each contributed by renouned scientists in the field.

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Our present knowledge on the metabolism of vitamin D is far from complete. A lot of work is still underway to discover the unknown facts about this vitamin.

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The interesting interrelationship between maternal diet, breast milk production and lactational infertility has posed a number of questions which remain unanswered due to an inadequate attention received and lack of indepth research on this subject.

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Iron deficiency still remains as the most widespread public health problem in most of the developing as well as the developed countries. Hence it is highly fitting that the Ross Laboratories took up this topic for the third time for their conference.

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Our current knowledge on protein and energy needs for normal healthy individuals is insufficient and no quantitative guidelines are available to allow for the various degress of stress affecting all populations, especially the lower socio economic groups within developing countries.

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