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Handbook of Famine, Starvation, and Nutrient Deprivation

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Effects of Energy Deficiency: A Focus on Hospitalized and Critically Ill Patients
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    Chapter 2 Food Waste: Metrics, Effects, and Hunger in Hawai‘i
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    Chapter 3 Male Anorexia as an Eating Disorder: Similarities and Differences with Anorexia Nervosa in Women
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    Chapter 4 Effects of Iron Deficiency on the Oropharyngeal Region: Signs, Symptoms, and Biological Changes
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    Chapter 5 Iron Deficiency in Women
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    Chapter 6 Magnesium Deficiency: Prevalence, Assessment, and Physiological Effects
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    Chapter 7 Malnutrition and Intestinal Parasites: Mexico Perspectives
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    Chapter 8 Biafran Famine
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    Chapter 9 Preventing Food Waste and Promoting Healthier Eating among Lower-Income Families in Industrialized Nations
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    Chapter 10 Nutrition Status of Those Receiving Unprepared Food from Food Banks: Overview of Food Bank Users in High-Income Countries and Their Diet
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    Chapter 11 Using Mid-Upper Arm Circumference to Detect High-Risk Malnourished Patients in Need of Treatment
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    Chapter 12 Defining and Assessing Skin Changes in Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)
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    Chapter 13 Fatty Acid Uptake by the Heart During Fasting
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    Chapter 14 Starvation in Fish: Sturgeon and Rainbow Trout as Examples
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    Chapter 15 Lipid Response to Amino Acid Starvation in Fat Cells: Role of FGF21
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    Chapter 16 Principles for Developing a Safe and Sustainable Valorization of Food Waste for Animal Feed: Second Generation Feedstuff
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    Chapter 17 Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis and Malnutrition in Cancer
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    Chapter 18 Management Approaches for Desalination and Water Supplies for Drought
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    Chapter 19 Technical Approaches for Desalination and Water Supplies for Drought
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    Chapter 20 Soup Kitchens: Homeless Adults and Gaps in Meeting Their Nutritional Needs
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    Chapter 21 Selenium and Cognition: Mechanism and Evidence
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    Chapter 22 Folate: Could We Live Without It? A Novel Epigenetic Connection
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    Chapter 23 Stress Response of Nutrient-Starved Cardiovascular Cells
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    Chapter 24 The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to the Dutch Famine 1944–1945 on Health Across the Lifecourse
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    Chapter 25 Food Insecurity, Nutritional Programs, and Educational Achievement
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    Chapter 26 Drinking-Water Access and Health in Refugee Camps
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    Chapter 27 Quality of Life in Adult Anorexia Nervosa
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    Chapter 28 Assessment of Dysphagia and Sarcopenia for Nutritional Applications: Practical Implications for Malnourished Older Patients Who Require Rehabilitation
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    Chapter 29 Intermittent Fasting Effects on the Central Nervous System: How Hunger Modulates Brain Function
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    Chapter 30 Influences of Prolonged Fasting on Behavioral and Brain Patterns
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    Chapter 31 Evidence for the Association Between Early Childhood Stunting and Metabolic Syndrome
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    Chapter 32 Fetal Undernutrition and Oxidative Stress: Influence of Sex and Gender
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    Chapter 33 Nutritional Status of the Elderly in an Arab Country in Social Transition: The Case of Lebanon
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    Chapter 34 Nutrients of Concern for Older People
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    Chapter 35 Vitamin B12 Deficiency and Impact on MRI Morphometrics: Association Between Cognitive Impairment and Neuroimaging Findings
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    Chapter 36 The Role of the Central Nervous System in the Reduction of Food Intake During Infectious and Neoplastic Disease and in Eating Disorders: Experimental Approaches
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    Chapter 37 Adaptation of Hepatic, Renal, and Intestinal Gluconeogenesis During Food Deprivation
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    Chapter 38 Diet and Kwashiorkor in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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    Chapter 39 Impact of Childhood Experience of Famine on Body Composition: DEX and Beyond
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    Chapter 40 Healthcare, Inequality, and Epidemiologic Transition: Example of China
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    Chapter 41 Endocrine Changes in Undernutrition, Metabolic Programming, and Nutritional Recovery
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    Chapter 42 Coordinating Evolutionarily Conserved Response of Muscle and Brain to Optimize Performance During Starvation
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    Chapter 43 Maternal Undernutrition and Developmental Programming: Implications for Offspring Reproductive Potential
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    Chapter 44 Vitamin D Deficiency and Fertility: An Overview
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    Chapter 45 The Biological and Health Outcomes of Copper Inadequacy: A Public Health Perspective
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    Chapter 46 Screening for Iodine Deficiency
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    Chapter 47 The Great Irish Famine 1845–1850: Social and Spatial Famine Vulnerabilities
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    Chapter 48 Food Security and Nutritional Health of Newcomer Children
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    Chapter 49 Impaired Magnesium Status and Depression
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    Chapter 50 Comparing Characteristics of Malnutrition, Starvation, Sarcopenia, and Cachexia in Older Adults
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    Chapter 51 The Ketone Body Beta-Hydroxybutyrate in Starvation
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    Chapter 52 Improving Infant and Young Child Nutrition in a Highly Stunted Rural Community: A Practical Case Study from Guatemala
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    Chapter 53 Restricted Temporal Access to Food and Anorexia: Modeling Systems
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    Chapter 54 Prealbumin and Retinol Binding Protein as Screening Tools for Malnutrition
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    Chapter 55 Severe Protein-Calorie Malnutrition After Bariatric Surgery
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    Chapter 56 Malnutrition, Cachexia, and Quality of Life in Patients with Cancer
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    Chapter 57 Child Starvation and Neglect
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    Chapter 58 Cardiometabolic Risk in Marasmus and Kwashiorkor Survivors
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    Chapter 59 Vitamin D Assessment in Older Adults
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    Chapter 60 Importance of Chromium in the Diet
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    Chapter 61 Effects of Protein Deficiency on Perinatal and Postnatal Health Outcomes
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    Chapter 62 Food Wastage Prevention as a Means for Saving Food
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    Chapter 64 Mitophagy in Starvation
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    Chapter 65 Impact of Transnational Migration: Underweight and Obesity in Contemporary Europe
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    Chapter 66 Nutritional Screening Tools for Malnutrition in Pediatrics
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    Chapter 67 Selenium Deficiency and Selenium Supplements: Biological Effects on Fibrosis in Chronic Diseases, from Animal to Human Studies
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    Chapter 68 Impact of Low-Salt Diet
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    Chapter 69 Autophagy as a Physiological Response of the Body to Starvation
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    Chapter 70 Famine and Bone Metabolism
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    Chapter 71 The Barker Hypothesis
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    Chapter 72 Effects of Dietary Restriction on Cancer Development and Progression
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    Chapter 73 Effects of Biotin Deprivation and Biotin Supplementation
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    Chapter 74 Nutrition Screening and Assessment in Hip Fracture
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    Chapter 75 The Greek Famine of 1941–1942 and Its Impact
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    Chapter 76 Thyroid Axis and Energy Balance: Focus on Animals and Implications for Humankind
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    Chapter 77 Adult Undernutrition in Rural Post-conflict Northern Uganda
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    Chapter 78 Outcomes of Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa
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    Chapter 79 Arthritis-Induced Anorexia and Muscle Wasting
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    Chapter 80 Zinc Deficiency and Epigenetics
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    Chapter 81 Vitamin B6: Effects of Deficiency, and Metabolic and Therapeutic Functions
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    Chapter 82 Calorie Restriction and Insulin Sensitivity in Obesity
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    Chapter 83 Thiamine Deficiency and Poverty
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    Chapter 84 Suffering the Great Hunger: Scurvy and Tuberculosis as Reflected in Skeletons of Victims of the Great Irish Famine (1845–1852)
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    Chapter 85 Applying a Biosocial Perspective to Address Childhood Diarrhea-Related Morbidity and Mortality
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    Chapter 86 Congenital Vitamin E Deficiency
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    Chapter 87 Malnutrition in Older Adults in the United States
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    Chapter 88 Household Food Insecurity and Child Nutritional Status: Pattern, Causes, and Relationship
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    Chapter 89 Home Edible Food Waste: Nordic Aspects
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    Chapter 90 Analysis of the Relationship Between Zinc Deficiency, Androgen Disorders, and Lung
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    Chapter 91 Anti-inflammatory and Antioxidant Effects and Zinc Deficiency
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    Chapter 92 Vitamin A’s Role in the Regulation of Hepatic Glucose and Lipid Metabolism During the Transition from Fasting to Refeeding
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    Chapter 93 Zinc Deficiency and Stunting
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    Chapter 94 Role of VPS34 Complexes in Starvation-Induced Autophagy
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    Chapter 95 Famine in Ghana and Its Impact
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    Chapter 96 Addressing Child Malnutrition in India
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    Chapter 97 Malnutrition in Tuberculosis
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    Chapter 98 Nutritional Status in Malnourished Older Diabetics
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    Chapter 99 Intermittent Fasting and Caloric Restriction: Neuroplasticity and Neurodegeneration
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    Chapter 100 Cancer Cells and Effects of Glucose Starvation
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    Chapter 101 National Programs and Policies to Address Child Malnutrition in India: Challenges and Opportunities
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    Chapter 102 Surgical Treatment for Severe Protein-Calorie Malnutrition After Bariatric Surgery
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    Chapter 103 Metabolic Syndrome and Social Deprivation
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    Chapter 104 Malnutrition in Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Disease
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    Chapter 105 Aspects of Gender in Famine: Evidence from the Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine
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    Chapter 106 Low Folate Status and Relationship with Betaine and Homocysteine
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    Chapter 107 Malnutrition in Dialysis
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    Chapter 108 Hydration in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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    Chapter 109 Nutritional Consequences of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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    Chapter 110 Health Impacts of Omega-3 Fatty Acid Deficiency
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    Chapter 111 Complementary Food Supplements After Disasters
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    Chapter 112 Short-Term and Long-Term Effect of Exposure to Famine During Childhood on Human Health Status
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    Chapter 113 Magnesium Deficiency, Sphingolipids, and Telomerase: Relevance to Atherogenesis, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Aging
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    Chapter 114 Understanding Famine in Ethiopia: Bio-physical and Socio-economic Drivers
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    Chapter 115 Endocrine Aspects of Anorexia Nervosa
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    Chapter 116 Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) of Malnutrition
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    Chapter 117 Growth of Skinfold Thickness in the Undernourished Santal Children: A Focus on the Purulia District of India
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    Chapter 118 Low Vitamin A Status and Diabetes: An Overview
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    Chapter 119 Vitamin K Status in Nutritionally Compromised Circumstances
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    Chapter 120 Activity-Based Anorexia and Food Schedule Induction
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    Chapter 121 Fasting Influences Conditioned Memory for Food Preference Through the Orexin System: Hypothesis Gained from Studies in the Rat
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    Chapter 122 Double Burden of Underweight and Overweight: The Example of Bangladesh
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    Chapter 123 Resources in Famine, Starvation, and Nutrient Deprivation
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    Chapter 124 Protein Energy Malnutrition and Nutritional Aspect of Heart Disease
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    Chapter 125 Initial Hunger, a Subjective, Reproducible Limit in Intake Associated with Low Blood Glucose: A Training for Malnourished Infants and Overweight Adults
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Title
Handbook of Famine, Starvation, and Nutrient Deprivation
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2018
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55387-0
ISBNs
978-3-31-955388-7, 978-3-31-955387-0, 978-3-31-955386-3
Editors

Victor R. Preedy, Vinood B. Patel

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 18%
Student > Bachelor 8 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 8%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 5%
Researcher 3 5%
Other 10 16%
Unknown 21 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 9 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 5%
Other 10 16%
Unknown 22 36%