Stories
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
- Book extract
Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
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Beyond a green carpet
Plant ecologist Sara Middleton explores the amazing symbiotic relationships between the species that make up grasslands, and considers their future as rain becomes more scarce.
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
Catalogue
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Calorie requirements : report of the Committee on Calorie Requirements, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 12-16 September 1949.
Date: 1950- Books
Protein requirements : report of the FAO Committee, Rome, Italy, 24-31 October 1955.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Committee on Protein Requirements.Date: 1957- Videos
Clinical nutrition : nutritional requirements.
Date: 1978- Videos
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Clinical nutrition : nutritional requirements.
Date: 1978- Books
Handbook on human nutritional requirements / R. Passmore, B.M. Nicol, M. Narayana Rao ; in collaboration with G.H. Beaton, E.M. Demayer.
Passmore, R. (Reginald)Date: 1974