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Body weight—fat and energy
G.R. HerveyIn this extract from his paper, Professor Hervey discusses some of the mechanisms which may be responsible for maintaining energy balance and normal body weight.
Manufactured milk
R. WaiteFrom time to time items in newspapers predict that the dairy cow will soon become obsolete and that a bright new idea is to make milk without her help. They usually claim that the…
Toxicological Testing and Research
A.M. SeeleyThe establishment of the British Industrial Biological Research Association in October 1960 was preceded by complex discussions, which continued for a number of years. The…
Keeping a sense of proportion
G.A.H. EltonIn 1970 there were 8,088 cases of food poisoning notified and ascertained in England, and 38 people died, due mainly or in part to food poisoning or infection with food poisoning…
Monitoring for heavy metals
Alan TolanThere appears to be no clear chemical definition of the term, heavy metal, but in the broadest sense the term seems to be restricted to metals of greater atomic number than…
Nutrition Education in Italy
Flaminio FidanzaThe most active work on nutrition education in the ‘compulsory’ (primary and lower secondary) schools of Italy is carried out by the AAI (Amministrazione per le Attivita…
Professor Sir Rudolph Peters MC MD FRCP FRS: WINNER OF THE SECOND BRITISH NUTRITION FOUNDATION PRIZE
In the 1920s, Sir Rudolph Peters was one of the distinguished pupils of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins working under his direction in the Biochemistry Department at Cambridge…
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