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标题：Nutrition in clinical practice. - book reviews
作者：Michael Lerner
期刊名称：Whole Earth: access to tools, ideas, and practices
印刷版ISSN：1097-5268
出版年度：1986
卷号：Winter 1986
出版社：Point Foundation

Nutrition in clinical practice. - book reviews

Michael Lerner

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Nutrition in Clinical Practice Marion Nestle, Ph.D. 1985; 328 pp. $16.95 ($18.55 postpaid) from: Jones Michael Publications 355 Los Cerros Drive Greenbrace, CA 94904 or Whole Earth Access

All round, the most levelheaded scientific treatment of nutrition -- a field rifle with unbalanced theories. Cautious, yet open minded. A good clear summary for students.

-- Michael Lerner

Hair analysis

The idea that minerals are incorporated into growing hair in proportion to their levels in the body has led to the widespread use of high energy emission techniques to evaluate trace mineral status. The proportionality of dietary intake and hair concentration, however, has yet to be established for a single essential nutrient.

Relactation

Women who have never had children or have not given birth for a long time can be induced to lactate by a combination of breast stimulation, suckling, and, occasionally, oxytocin (as a nasal spray). The milk produced by these methods is closer in composition to mature milk than to colostrum, but it contains fewer immune factors and nutrients. The volume produced is rarely sufficient; relactating mothers need to supplement their milk supply with formula. These methods do, however, permit adoptive mothers to at least partially nurse their infants if they wish.

Low serum cholesterol. More than 20 studies of the relation between high serum cholesterol levels and coronary heart disease have unexpectedly revealed another association: low serum cholesterol levels are strongly correlated with increased cancer incidence. This unsettling observation has yet to be explained. Low serum cholesterol levels seem more likely to result from cancer than to cause it. Alternatively, both may be induced by some third factor. For example, increased cholesterol excretion might lower serum levels while increasing colonic concentrations of cholesterol metabolites, secondary bile acids, and carcinogens.