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Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volume 4, Number 1, January 1982

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Published by the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan.

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The Food and Nutrition Bulletin incorporates and continues the former PAG Bulletin of the Protein-Calorie Advisory Group of the United Nations system and is published quarterly by the United Nations University in collaboration with the United Nations ACC Sub-Committee on Nutrition. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the United Nations University or the UN ACC Sub-Committee on Nutrition.

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WHFNB-13/UNUP-379
ISSN 0379-5721
ISBN 92-08-0379-4

Contents

Hunger, health and society

Weaning practices in urban and rural Egypt
Community-level nutrition interventions in Sri Lanka: a case study
The prevention and control of diarrhoeal diseases
Questions and answers about weaning
Inventory of international and regional training courses in human nutrition

Hunger, technology and society

Non-toxic food protectants: comparative nutrition and physiology of pests in relation to the protection of processed foods
The role and status of women in post-harvest food conservation

News and notes

Boosting food processing in the third World
Scientific meetings
IUNS publication

Book review

Prevention in childhood of health problems in adult life.

Letters to the editor

Nutrition education and food-sharing within the family
Social ecology and the breast-milk substitutes code

UNU world hunger programme

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