... Illness Incidence of colon cancer and related deaths is especially high and a cause for concern in several developed countries (Reddy, 1999). Colon cancer risk is exacerbated by genetic factors such as familial polyposis and ulcerative colitis, but also by environmental factors such as exposure...

...Sara Stanner Summarises the findings of the British Nutrition Foundation Task Force report Adverse Reactions to Food. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Food Milk Illness According to the popular press food allergy is rife and on the increase. A government funded survey of around...

... for clinical symptoms. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Food Health Illness The primary functions of the gastrointestinal tract are to permit the absorption of nutritionally important dietary components and to assist in the maintenance of homeostasis in the milieu. A wide range of specific absorptive...

... Limited 1997 Health Illness Mental health Nutrition There are according to a WHO report[ 1 ] approximately 1 billion people who are still at risk from iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), of whom 200 million suffer from goitre, over 5 million are gross cretins with mental retardation...

.... © Company 1996 Ethnic groups Food Illness United Kingdom Women Young people It has been claimed that anorexia nervosa is limited to patients of white racial origin[ 1 ] and that disordered eating among non‐white populations who value larger body shapes is due to greater...