Nurturing Our Women and Children (2 Vols-Set)
Contents: Vol. I. Conceptualization of Health and Nutrition: 1. Need for food. 2. Importance of nutrition and food guide. 3. Nutrition and human body. 4. Nutrition and health. 5. Nutrient retention from food preparation. 6. Optimal nutrition using economical food purchasing. 7. Micronutrients. 8. Soyabean: the wonder food. 9. Vitamins and minerals. 10. Nutritional value of vegetables and fruits. 11. Dietary fibre: the fact? 12. Non-vegetarian food sources. 13. Diet therapy. 14. Nutritional policy. 15. Beyond economics and nutrition: approach to food policy. 16. Dietary goals relating to optimal health. 17. Sugars in human disease. 18. Health problems. 19. Private initiatives and policy options: recent health system experiment in India. 20. A glossary of nutrition. 21. Appendix. 22. Index.
Vol. II. Nutritional Trends in Third World Countries: 1. World nutrition situation. 2. Conceptualisation of nutrition. 3. Nutrition and development. 4. Women as food managers. 5. Breast feeding, family planning and child health. 6. Child health care. 7. Nutrition and children. 8. Child care and childhood. 9. Breastfeeding, fertility and population growth. 10. Nutrition and its influence on the mother-child. 11. Reproductive stress and women\'s nutrition. 12. Nutrition and family planning linkages. 13. Human resource development and nutrition. 14. Economic growth poverty equity and food security. 15. Globalization and the health of the poor. 16. Nutrition and infection in national development. 17. Food and nutrition in developing countries. 18. A glossary of food storages, refrigeration and handling. Index.
"Food habits are not necessarily related to nutrition and life style pattern. These habits are related with culture, environment and availability of food. Therefore, it is argued that life style patterns and food habits must be linked with nutritional requirements in such a way that disease could be prevented or cured deprived nutrition at developing stage results in retardation of growth, poor health, reduced efficiency and also a poor level of social output. The social welfare policies and programmes globally are extensive in approach. The programme become more steamlined and were integrative in nature. Aimed to reach to the poorer sections, they have tried to integrate different types of services to cater a variety of needs.
"It is this phenomena in its varied dimensions which the editor of this encyclopaedia has tried to explore. She had provided an objective critique of the contradictions and consequences of the development and disparities. There are some definite linkages between development and disparities. Tackling as it does varies concerns which are of growing importance in most developing countries, the collection in this encyclopaedia is of thought provoking critical reviews/papers/articles from India and abroad which would appeal to a wide range of readers.
"The encyclopaedia encompasses a wide range of content and approaches in its admit and as such it is expected to be of much interest to a vast spectrum of scholars." (jacket)
