Food Chains and Human Nutrition

1. Front Matter

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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

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

• amino acid
• diet
• health
• nutrition

• The Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, UK

  Kenneth Blaxter

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