Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition Society Textbook Series

Textbook of Nutrition

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Textbook of Pediatric Nutrition

Despite intensive efforts for several decades, our understanding of tumor cell biology is at the stage where we are still trying to formulate the basic questions involved. We have found that neoplastic cells have subtle alterations in such fundamental processes as cell proliferation, differentiation, and morphogenesis, areas only barely understood in normal cells. Nevertheless, a great deal has...

The American Society for Clinical Nutrition as an academic society.

Ending my presidential year on the 30th anniversary of The American Society of Clinical Nutrition (ASCN) gives me the opportunity to reflect on our society’s original goals and our success in meeting them. Thirty years ago, in September 1959, 10 academic physicians met in New York to establish a society “along the lines of the American Society for Clinical Investigation” that would parallel the...

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

When the name vitamin B,, was proposed by Rickes, Brink, Koniuszy, Wood & Folkers (1948), my colleagues and I debated whether we should adopt the term or retain the earlier name ' anti-pernicious anaemia factor', even when our red crystalline substance was shown to be identical with theirs (Smith & Parker 1948; Fantes, Page, Parker & Smith, 1949). It is now abundantly clear that this substance ...

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society