This book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter‐gatherer to an agricultural life‐style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today.
Demography and Nutrition takes an interdisciplinary approach, involving time‐series analyses, mathematical modelling, aggregative analysis and family reconstruction as well as analysis of date series from Third World countries in the twentieth century. Contents include details and analysis of mortality oscillations, food supplies, fertility and pregnancy, infancy and infant mortality, ageing, infectious diseases and population dynamics.
Of particular interest is the section on diets of hunter gatherers and comparison with present‐day diets.
Demography and Nutrition contains a vast wealth of fascinating and vital information and as such is essential reading for a wide range of health professionals including nutritionists, dietitians, public‐health and community workers, historians, social scientists, geographers and all those involved in work on demography will find this book to be of great use and interest. Libraries in all university departments, medical schools and research establishments should have copies of this landmark publication available on their shelves.
Dr Susan Scott and Professor Christopher J. Duncan are both at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK.
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