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Florence Theophilus ¹, S. Usha ¹

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1 Home Science Department, Women's Christian College, Madras-600 006, IN

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Studies on growth and physical development of infants and children are important as they provide determinants of a nation's health'. On the whole, the labor force is from the low socio-economic segment of the population and it is all the more important that nutritionists and health educators should be concerned with the growth and development of infants belonging to this group. Devadas et al, have studied the physical measurements of infants in Coimbatore in relation to diet and nutrition.

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Florence Theophilus

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Teachers and research workers look forward to annual reviews in their respective disciplines. Annual Review of Physiology is one such publication. Those of us who are fortunate to have access to this publication know how valuable it is to bring us up-to-date in recent advances in physiology.

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Florence Theophilus

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The book entitled "Practical meat cutting and merchandising" Vol. 2 - by Thomas Fabbricante and William J. Sultan, as stated in the preface, is directed very much to those engaged in the purchase, processing, merchandising, distribution and preparation of a variety of meats for human consumption.

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Nirmala R. Pai ¹, Florence Theophilus ¹

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1 Department of Home Science, Women's Christian College, Madras-6, IN

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Anaemia exists in many human beings throughout the world, particularly in poorer countries. The World Health Organization has pointed out that "a great deal of ill-health sapping energy and productiveness in many countries and causing tragedies in child-birth is due to anaemia." Nutritional anaemias are known to be widely prevalent in the Indian sub-continent, and of these, iron deficiency anaemia appears to be the most common.

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Florence Theophilus

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The book, "Erythropoietin and the Regulation of Erythropoiesis," is an exhaustive review of literature concerning one hormone: erythropoietin, its existence and importance in erythropoiesis.

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Florence Theophilus

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This book deals extensively with the vitamins: Thiamine, Riboflavin, Nicotinic acid, Pyridoxine, Biotin, the Folic acid complex and vitamin B_{12. A short chapter on Lipoic acid is also included. Each chapter is divided into many sections.}

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