Food Chains and Human Nutrition

  • Kenneth Blaxter
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Ecological Concepts and their Relevance to Human Nutrition
    J. N. R. Jeffers
    Pages 1-22
  3. Man’s Demand for Energy
    D. S. Miller
    Pages 23-49
  4. World Production of Organic Matter
    D. O. Hall
    Pages 51-92
  5. Secondary Production in the Oceans
    John H. Steele
    Pages 93-108
  6. Secondary Production from Land
    W. Holmes
    Pages 109-134
  7. Amino Acids: Production by Plants and the Requirements of Man
    L. Fowden
    Pages 135-159
  8. The Nitrogen Economy of Marine and Land Environments
    John R. Postgate
    Pages 161-185
  9. Man’s Impact on Environmental Systems
    M. W. Holdgate
    Pages 187-214
  10. Man and the Major Mineral Elements
    Elsie M. Widdowson
    Pages 215-232
  11. Uptake of Some Major Mineral Elements by Plants
    T. S. West, B. W. Bache
    Pages 233-256
  12. Trace Mineral Elements, Mammalian Requirements and Man’s Presumptive Needs
    Walter Mertz
    Pages 257-271
  13. Trace Elements in Soils and Plants
    Iain Thornton, John S. Webb
    Pages 273-315
  14. Trace Elements in the Marine Environment
    P. T. Grant, J. R. Sargent
    Pages 317-339
  15. Support Energy from Fossil Fuels
    Roger M. Gifford
    Pages 341-362
  16. Radioactive Materials
    R. S. Bruce
    Pages 363-384
  17. Radioactive Materials—The Aquatic Environment
    R. J. Pentreath
    Pages 385-400
  18. Pesticides and Other Man-made Chemicals and the Food Chain
    N. W. Moore
    Pages 401-413
  19. Implications of the Intensification of Agriculture for Ecological Problems
    G. W. Cooke
    Pages 415-439
  20. Implications for Human Health and Nutrition—and the Research That Needs to be Done
    John Butterfield
    Pages 441-453

About this book

Introduction

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

Keywords

amino acid diet health nutrition

Editors and affiliations

  • Kenneth Blaxter
    • 1
  1. 1.The Rowett Research InstituteBucksburn, AberdeenUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7336-0
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1980
  • Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-94-011-7338-4
  • Online ISBN 978-94-011-7336-0
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