Shortlisted, Tertiary Education Single Book Award (Wholly Australian), Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing 1997 Food And Nutrition is a comprehensive introduction to nutrition and dietetics. Ranging from up-to-date clinical data to social and cultural aspects of food, it includes the following sections: * Evolution, culture and food * Contemporary food use * Food composition, processing, regulation and safety * The biology of food components * Lifespan nutrition * Foods and diseases * Nutrition monitoring and surveillance * Primary health care and nutrition * Food production and the environment Covering issues and data from throughout the Australasian, Asian and Pacific region, illustrated throughout with line drawings and graphs, and written in clear and accessible language, Food And Nutrition is an indispensable student text and a handy professional reference. Food And Nutrition is a successor to the leading text Food And Nutrition In Australia. Mark L Wahlqvist is Professor of Medicine at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a member of the World Health Organisation Nutrition Advisory Committee and National Chairperson of the Australian Nutrition Foundation. He is co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal Of Clinical Nutrition.