Publisher's Synopsis
This volume consists of four reviews on subjects basic to nutrition and dietetics that are interrelated in terms of taste, malnutrition, immunology, milk-feeding models, and rickets, a disease which is viewed not simply as a nutritional disorder but as a specific complex disease of the tropics.;The first paper includes the latest information on taste and its importance in the management of food intake and food selection, while the second paper provides a complete evaluation of the piglet as a model for infant feeding. The third paper discusses the role of nutrients to enhance the complement system in order to induce resistance to infection in malnutrition. Finally, rickets is reviewed in terms of epidemiologic, metabolic, genetic and religious factors, and in relation to vitamin A deficiency, iron deficiency and thalassemia.
