BOOK>Nutritional Concerns of Women by Wolinsky and Klimis-Tavantzis

[Laura Larsson]

Friends:

Here is a book which might be of interest to you. Victoria Ertelt is a
library school student here at the University of Washington. I asked her
to practice her abstracting skills for you and am now passing on the
result:

A book has been published recently that may be of interest to members of
this list.  It is "Nutritional Concerns of Women", edited by Ira Wolinsky
and Dorothy Klimis-Tavantzis, and published by CRC Press.  It has 16
chapters written by different authors, including Women's Health &
Nutrition Research: U.S. Governmental Concerns by Nancy B. Cummings,
Women's Self-Conception of Nutrition: Societal Influences on Eating
Behavior, Premenstrual Sundrome - Nutritional Implications by Jaime S.
Ruud, Nutritional Factors in Women's Cancers: Breast, Cervical,
Endometrial, and Ovarian by Barbara C. Pence, and Women as a Community
with Nutritional Needs by Paula Zemel and Betsy Haughton. Full
bibliographic information and table of contents can be found below.


Title:        Nutritional concerns of women / edited by Ira Wolinsky,
       	      Dorothy Klimas-Tavantzis.
Pub. Info.:   Boca Raton : CRC Press, c1996.
Phy Descript: 335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:        Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:     Contents: Women's health and nutrition research : U.S
              governmental concerns / Nancy B. Cummings -- Major
              diet-related risk factors in American women / Carolyn K
              Clifford -- Women's self-conception of nutrition : societal
              influences on eating behavior / Susan P. Robbins -- Diet
              and osteoporosis / John J.B. Amderson -- Nutritional
              anemias / Kelly S. Scanlon and Ray Yip -- Obesity and
              evaluation of weight control programs / Judith S. Stern and
              Paul R. Thomas -- Eating disorders in women / Kelly K. Hill
              [et al.] -- Nutrition, cardiovascular disease, and women /
              Dorothy J. Klimis-Tavantzis and Ira Wolinsky --
              Premenstrual syndrome - nutritional implications / Jaime S
              Ruud -- Oral contraception and nutrition / Priscille Masse
              -- Nutritional factors in women's cancers : breast,
              cervical, endometrial, and ovarian / Barbara C.. Pence --
              Nutritional guidelines during pregnancy and lactation /
              Mary Story and Irene Alton -- Nutritional concerns of the
              female recreational athlete / Catherine G. Ratzin Jackson
              -- Nutrition issues of women in the U.S. Army / Nancy King
              and Eldon W. Askew -- Nutrition and the older female /
              Helen Smiciklas-Wright [et al.] -- Women as a community
              with nutritional needs / Paula Zemel and Betsy Haughton.


Regards,

Laura
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