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A Balanced Diet?

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. John Dobbing

    1. Department of Child Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Diet and Health: Striking a Balance

    • D. J. Naismith
    Pages 1-26

  3. Diet and Obesity

    • J. V. G. A. Durnin
    Pages 27-44

  4. Diabetes Mellitus: Consideration of Diet in Aetiology and Management

    • R. J. Jarrett
    Pages 45-56

  5. Dietary Carbohydrate and Dental Caries

    • M. E. J. Curzon
    Pages 57-75

  6. Salt and Blood Pressure

    • G. A. MacGregor
    Pages 77-92

  7. Dietary Fat and Coronary Heart Disease

    • T. A. B. Sanders
    Pages 93-115

  8. Dietary Fibre and the Diseases of Affluence

    • D. A. T. Southgate
    Pages 117-141

  9. Changing Lifestyles: The Effects on a Balanced Diet

    • J. E. Thomas
    Pages 143-168

  10. Towards a National Food and Nutrition Policy

    • J. P. W. Rivers
    Pages 169-186

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 187-190
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About this book

A Balanced Diet? is an attempt to answer the next question which consumers always ask when advised by their doctors or other health professionals, or the media, to eat one. What is it? Of course a balanced diet is a concept, and may be simply expressed as a diet which, over a period of time, provides all the dietary constituents which are required for healthy living, and which helps avoid disease states so far as these may be attributable to unhealthy eating. A group of leading nutritionists and doctors has attempted to describe in this book the guidelines for which such a diet may be devised. The authors have tried to face the many controversies and to resolve them, always with reference to evidence before mere belief. It is hoped that the reader will be better equipped after reading this book, whether he be doctor, paramedic, or plain, ordinary citizen, to confront the enormous body of material with which he is surrounded every day.

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  • Department of Child Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    John Dobbing

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