Challenges of food and nutrition in a global context;Alimentazione e nutrizione in un mondo senza frontiere

Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 511-518

  Mariani Costantini, Renato ^a,c   Mariani Costantini, Aldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b SIGU Società Italiana di Genetica Umana   (Italy)

^c Centro di Scienze dell'Invecchiamento   (Italy)

Author keywords

"Millennium Development Goals"; Adaptive evolution; Alimentation; Diet; Food insecurity; Food safety; Nutrigenetics; Nutrigenomics; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CANCER; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET; EVOLUTION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD SECURITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUTRIGENOMICS; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; POLITICS; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW;

ADULT; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FOOD; FOOD SUPPLY; FOOD TECHNOLOGY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MORBIDITY; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; NUTRITION POLICY; SAFETY; UNITED NATIONS; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33845920687     PISSN: 00341193     EISSN: 00341193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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