China in the 1980s, which is the subject of this descriptive monograph, was in many respects very different from China in previous decades (and even more so, perhaps, from China in future decades), and it is important to understand the lessons that this large part of human experience can offer. China not only had an enormous population living under conditions very different from those that had been intensively investigated in the West, but the diet, habits, lifestyle, antropometry and blood biochemistry were highly variable between one part of rural China and another, as were the mortality rates from many of the world's most common diseases of middle and old age.The many different patterns that emerge from this study may well take years to assimilate properly into epidemiological and sociological understanding. The changes in the rural mortality rates (between the early 1970s and late 1980s) provide evidence of notable progress in the conquest of infectious diseases, most markedly in childhood, but not in the control of the chronic diseases of middle age. Both for infectious diseases and for chronic diseases, however, the mortality rates continue to show striking contrasts between different parts of rural China, and between rural China and other populations, that should provide important leads to causation, many aspects of which are still unclear.This bilingual volume will provide for the discerning reader some of the most stimulating and potentially productive observations on patterns of geographic variation ever to have been brought together in a single medical text.

Mortality, Biochemistry, Diet and Lifestyle in Rural China: Geographic Study of the Characteristics of 69 Counties in Mainland China and 16 Areas in Taiwan

Politics & Social Sciences

Root, Martin

Campbell, T. Colin

Peto, Richard

Chen, Junshi

Pan, Wen-Harn

Liu, Bo-Qui

Boreham, Jillian

Parpia, Banoo

Cassano, Patricia

Chen, Zheng-Ming

Feng, Zu-Lin

Gelband, Hellen

Li, Jun-Yao

Pan, Hong-Chao

Wu, Yan-Ping

Youngman, Linda

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Human Nutrition: Healthy Options for Life provides all the essentials information students need regarding foods and nutrients, and how the body uses nutrients in relation to both health and chronic diseases. The authors provide a unique focus on the linkages between nutrients deficits and/or excesses and personal health. It helps students fully understand epidemiology, with a clear focus on the concept of the multiple risk factors involved in diseases, such as diet, heredity, and lifestyle factors. Human Nutrition: Healthy Options for Life empowers students to become more sophisticated in their own nutritional health behavior and guides them in determining appropriate serving sizes and food choices that promote health and prevent diet-related diseases. Key Features: - Student activities serve as self-tests for students who wish to expand their knowledge and understaning of nutrition. - A robust pedagogy includes chapter outlines and summaries, focus boxes, important quotes, students questions, and key word definitions, to help students better understand and retain key material. - Reviews all major nutrients including sources of energy, protein, and micronutrients. - Provides a strong emphasis on the contributions of nutrients in overall health and disease prevention. - Incorporates a review of the general nutritional recommendations and guidelines endorsed by the American Dietetics Association (ADA). - Emphasizes science-based information on the diverse nutrients and phytochemicals, an overview of lifecycle nutrition, focus on body weight and obesity, an explanation of linkages between nutritional intake patterns and the common chronic diseases, and important metabolic pathways and molecular structures.

Human Nutrition: Healthy Options for Life

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Garner, Sanford

Anderson,John

Diets & Weight Loss

Jones& Bartlett Learning

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