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Summary and recommendations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

D. W. T. Crompton  and
L. Savioli
D. W. T. Crompton
Affiliation:
WHO Collaborating Centre for Soil-transmitted Helminthiases, Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK
L. Savioli
Affiliation:
Programme of Intestinal Parasitic Infections, Division of Communicable Diseases, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
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According to Carpenter (1993), the first problem for nutritional science, to identify the chemicals required in a diet to support human growth and maintenance, has been solved. Enough information has been amassed from the study of many populations to enable nutritionists to offer safe recommendations about daily intakes of energy and nutrients for all stages of the human life cycle (see reviews by Nesheim and by Solomons, this volume). Adoption of these recommendations would generally correct deficiency diseases and would reduce the incidence of health complications which are linked to excessive intakes of fat, sodium, alcohol and other substances. Carpenter also drew attention to malnutrition, the solution of which he believed to have become largely political and economic although the fact remains that very many people still do not receive or grow enough food. In the context of this volume, Carpenter's most interesting point was his view that our understanding of the complex relationship between nutrition and disease was still at an early stage.

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Parasitology , Volume 107 , supplement S1: Human nutrition and parasitic infection , January 1993 , pp. S201 - S203
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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