The Heinz Handbook of Nutrition [antikvár]

PREFACE H. J. Heinz Company has published nutritional literature and related educational material for the last twenty-five years with gratifying acceptance. In the course of exploring and developing possibilities for expanded material, it was felt that there was a need for a more comprehensive work on the principles of nutrition as applied to dietary practices and institutional dietetics, as well as on the role of nutrition in preventive and therapeutic medicine—a reference manual with supporting data which would be both reliable and useful. Such a definitive treatise would attempt to condense and encompass the entire field of human nutrition, both in health and in disease, in a concise and authoritative manner. It is hoped that this Handbook will be not only a practical addition to the armamentarium of the practicing physician, dietitian, and nutritionist, but that it may become a reference book and teaching aid for teachers and students of nutrition, medicine, nursing, home economics, and food technology. We envision periodic revisions of this book to keep it abreast of the advances in the fields which it encompasses. We recognize that the science of nutrition and its application are essentially world-wide in scope. In fact it has immediate interest and value to all population groups. The solution of problems of nutritional improvement, both in terms of health and economics, appears vital to long range betterment of living standards, to prevention of disease, and to the advancement of human welfare. We sincerely hope that this Handbook of Nutrition will play a continued and useful role in the achievement of these objectives. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the members of the editorial board, all of whom are outstanding and recognized authorities in their respective fields of study, for their invaluable and devoted work. H. J. Heinz II