NUTRITION AND NUTRITIONAL DISEASESl
88 Citations•1951•
N. Davies
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This review deals with certain aspects of nutrition in the tropics, with kwashiorkor, and with the relatio nship of mal nutritional disease in early life to disease in la ter life.
Abstract
attempt to cover the whole field of nutritional work. This review deals with certain aspects of nutrition in the tropics, with kwashiorkor, and with the relatio nship of mal nutritional disease in early life to disease in la ter life. There is inevitably some overlap with the review by Dr. Meiklejohn and Dr. Passmore in the Annual Review of Medic ine for 1951 (5) but the subject is covered from a different standpoint. No apology is made for re-emphasising the importance of kwash iorkor in Africa for