Abstract
MORE than thirty years have elapsed since the appearance of the last important British compendium on diet, edited by the late Dr. G. A. Sutherland, so that a new book on the subject was urgently needed. Most of the articles in the work have already been published in the Practitioner,but they have been revised and a few new ones have been added. The book contains twenty-eight chapters contributed by thirty-two specialists. The chapters on diet in health deal with the various forms of infant feeding, diet in childhood, old age, winter and summer, pregnancy and lactation, and in the tropics, while the chapters on diet in disease are concerned with sick-room menus and recipes, diseases of the various systems and allergic diseases. A special chapter is devoted to alcohol, the dietetic use of which has been greatly reduced in recent years. The up-to-date and practical advice in which the work abounds will render it a useful handbook to the practitioner and student.
Diet in Health and Disease
Sir
Humphry
Rolleston
Dr.
Alan A.
Moncrieff
Edited by. (Published on behalf of the Practitioner.) Pp. 382. (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., 1939.) 14s. net.
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Diet in Health and Disease. Nature 145, 813 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145813c0
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