Advances in Human Clinical Nutrition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Issues and Advances in Human and Clinical Nutrition

   • Joseph J. Vitale

   Pages 1-16

3. Can We Design an Optimal Diet for the United States?

   • Robert E. Olson

   Pages 17-19

4. Human Milk Versus Proprietary Milk in the Newborn

   • Ophilia James

   Pages 21-29

5. Does Human Milk Intrinsically Help Protect Newborns from Infection?

   • Neal S. LeLeiko

   Pages 31-37

6. Psychosocial Aspects of Breast-Feeding

   • Kathleen J. Motil

   Pages 39-50

7. Infant Formula— Clinical Evaluation, Its Uses, and Current Feeding Practices in the United States and Developing Countries

   • Angel Cordano

   Pages 51-61

8. Breast- Versus Bottle-Feeding: Psychological Outcome

   • Esther Wender

   Pages 63-72

9. Nutritional Problems of Physically and Mentally Handicapped Children

   • John M. Carper

   Pages 73-80

10. Impact of Nutrition on Immune Function

    • Joseph J. Vitale

    Pages 81-97

11. The Effect of Infection on Host Nutritional Status

    • William R. Beisel

    Pages 99-105

12. Vitamin D in Health and Disease

    • Hector F. DeLuca

    Pages 107-130

13. Prothrombin Biosynthesis—A Vitamin K-Dependent Reaction

    • John W. Suttie

    Pages 131-142

14. Surgical Approaches to Morbid Obesity

    • Baltej S. Maini, George L. Blackburn

    Pages 143-156

15. The Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

    • Eileen Ouellette

    Pages 157-174

16. Dietary Fiber and Cancer

    • David Kritchevsky, Jon A. Story

    Pages 175-188

17. Nutrition and Chemotherapy — Drug-Nutrient Interactions Using Breast and Colon Carcinoma as Models

    • Richard J. Elkort

    Pages 189-194

18. Diet and Diabetes Mellitus

    • Ronald A. Arky

    Pages 195-204

19. The Effects of Dietary Components on Brain Function

    • Steven H. Zeisel

    Pages 205-214

20. Back Matter

    Pages 215-217

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Boston University School of Medicine has established a series of Medical Education Programs in Nutrition held each summer since 1975. These deal with controversies in human clinical nutrition. The subjects have covered various topics, including those dealing with the relation­ ships between diet and heart disease, diet and cancer, breast· versus bottle-feeding, and dietary fiber and disease. Other noncontroversial topics were also covered at these conferences; they were discussed simply to bring to the attention of the health professional new happenings in nutritional research. These topics dealt with the relationships of nutrition to immune function, to neurotransmitters, to infection, to obesity, and to chemotherapy. This text is a compilation of selected manuscripts of interest to the health professional in the area of human clinical nutrition. Whatever success this text enjoys is in no small way due to the ad­ ministrative and editorial efforts of our administrative assistant, Mrs Geraldine Rankin - our sincere thanks.

• Diabetes
• Diabetes mellitus
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin K
• alcohol
• cancer
• clinical nutrition
• colon
• dietary fiber
• nutrition
• obesity

• Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA

  Joseph J. Vitale, Selwyn A. Broitman

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