Food Chains and Human Nutrition

Herausgegeben:Blaxter, Kenneth L.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The purpose of the third symposium organised by the Advisory Committee on Nutrition and Crop Husbandry _of the Rank Prize Funds was to explore in some depth the complex processes whereby organic and inorganic materials reach man's diet, paying particular attenti

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-94-011-7338-4
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 695g
• ISBN-13: 9789401173384
• ISBN-10: 9401173389
• Artikelnr.: 39509668

Inhaltsangabe

Ecological Concepts and Their Relevance to Human Nutrition.- Man's Demand for Energy.- World Production of Organic Matter.- Secondary Production in the Oceans.- Secondary Production from Land.- Amino Acids: Production by Plants and the Requirements of Man.- The Nitrogen Economy of Marine and Land Environments.- Man's Impact on Environmental Systems.- Man and the Major Mineral Elements.- Uptake of Some Major Mineral Elements by Plants.- Trace Mineral Elements, Mammalian Requirements and Man's Presumptive Needs.- Trace Elements in Soils and Plants.- Trace Elements in the Marine Environment.- Support Energy from Fossil Fuels.- Radioactive Materials.- Radioactive Materials-the Aquatic Environment.- Pesticides and Other Man-made Chemicals and the Food Chain.- Implications of the Intensification of Agriculture for Ecological Problems.- Implications for Human Health and Nutrition and the Research That Needs to be Done.- List of Participants.