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Human Nutrition: A Comprehensive Treatise Volume 6: Nutrition, Aging, and the Elderly (Human Nutrition) by Roslyn B Alfin-Slater; David Kritchevsky; Myron Winick; Derrick Brian Jelliffe; Eleonore Florence Patrice Jelliffe; Robert Edgar Hodges; Janina R Galler; Hamish Nisbet Munro; Darla E Danford is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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The proportion of the population over 65 years of age is increasing steadily in most industrialized countries. In the United States the proportion of elderly people has risen from four percent in 1900 to 11 % in 1978, and is projected to be 14% by the year 2000. The occurrence of debilitating chronic diseases in the elderly increases with each additional year. These diseases, along with the natural loss of tissue function that occurs throughout adult life, impose a heavy burden on the health care system. Nutri tion plays an important etiologic role in many of these degenerative changes. Conse quently, the aging segment of the population presents a challenge to the nutrition scientist, who should be able to recommend optimal intakes of nutrients to minimize the functional losses associated with aging and to optimize the health of those already elderly. This sixth volume in the series Human Nutrition: A Comprehensive Treatise provides a conspectus of the various interactions of nutrition with the aging process and a comprehensive survey of current knowledge of the amounts of individual nutrients needed by the elderly. The volume begins with a general survey of the multifaceted relati

Author

Roslyn B Alfin-Slater; David Kritchevsky; Myron Winick; Derrick Brian Jelliffe; Eleonore Florence Patrice Jelliffe; Robert Edgar Hodges; Janina R Galler; Hamish Nisbet Munro; Darla E Danford

Publisher

Springer US

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306430473

Subjects

Medical, Science, Technology