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ACCESS NOT EXCESS
The search for better nutrition
Edited by Charles Pasternak £25 978-1-85463-225-8

You might think that the two groups – the undernourished and the overfed – are geographically distinct: the former live in the least developed countries (particularly those in Asia and Africa), the latter in the most developed countries (particularly those in North America and Europe: one in three within the USA is overweight). But you would be wrong. Although the majority of undernourished people indeed live in the least developed countries, and the majority of overweight people live in the most developed countries, there is surprising overlap between the two categories. Thus some 30 million people in the developed world live in poverty and go hungry on a daily basis, while >10% of women in sub-Saharan Africa, almost 40% of women in Latin America and the Caribbean, and nearly 50% in the Middle East and North Africa, are overweight.

The sixteen chapters by scientists from India, Eastern and Southern Africa, China, America and Europe, explore how the earth can feed its people (‘Access’) and how the increasing public health problem of overweight and obesity (‘Excess’) can be overcome. Are the objections to GM foods justified and do GM crops help or threaten small and subsistence farmers? Can staple crops such as rice and maize be fortified with nutrients? Is farming on an industrial scale compatible with a fair distribution of food resources? Increasingly food shortages and the threat to life and well-being coexist in communities alongside the transition to an urban unhealthy diet leading to diseases such as diabetes. ‘The obesity culture’ it is argued can only be changed by new kinds of public health efforts. Poverty is as much connected to obesity and its consequences as it is to the poor human development prospects of the chronically malnourished. Finally, taking the two forms of malnutrition together, what part can be played by NGOs, governments and industry in the search for better nutrition

The obesity culture : strategies for change. Public health and university-community partnerships
FE Johnston I Harkavy £25 978-1-85463-225-8
The authors describe obesity as a complex problem. As such they insist on the diverse conditions that form ‘The obesity culture’.  Good methods of research and a central role for education and community participation may best meet the public health challenge. Obesity and overweight, as hazards for the health of all, and widely manifested as a particular threat to the less economically well off and minority groups, form an outstanding example of the complex problems of today’s global society. Money alone and prescriptive solutions clearly do not work.

Jordan’s arid Badia: deepening our understanding
Edited by RW Dutton and MI Shahbaz
£55 978-1-85463-227
This is the second book recording more than a decade of cooperation between the Jordan Higher Council for Science and Technology and Durham University, UK. The work of the Badia Centre brings together research leading to an understanding of the geographic conditions of life in the arid Badia region that comprises 80% of Jordan. These studies match the aim of developing natural regional resources and preserving local human, animal and plant cultures.

Protein-energy malnutrition
J C Waterlow £35 978-1-85463-231-9
Reprint 2007 with added material
Protein-energy malnutrition fulfils the needs of doctors and health workers in less developed countries admirably...this book is an essential primer, especially since first-hand clinical and research experience in primary malnutrition is becoming increasingly difficult to acquire
--The Lancet (original edition).

Energy and nitrogen requirements in disease states
S J Taylor £25 978-185463-228-9
The monograph comprises five sections: methodology; energy requirements in chronic disease; energy requirements in severe inflammatory states; nitrogen, substrates and clinical outcome and estimating requirements. [The author] is to be congratulated for this concise, informative and practical monograph. J Hum Nutr Diet

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