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The argument from rights

Kerry Walters

Kerry Walters is William Bittinger Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College, PA, USA, where he also co-founded the Peace and Justice Studies program. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Vegetarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Continuum, 2012

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...What sort of dinner is not costly for which a living creature loses its life? Do we hold a life cheap? It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice. In his book Dominion: The Power...

Vitamin K and Vitamin K–Dependent Proteins

Myrtle Thierry-Palmer

Myrtle Thierry-Palmer

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...The term “vitamin K” was first introduced by Henrik Dam in 1935, following discovery of a fat-soluble substance that could prevent bleeding (Dam 1935, 1964). During the years 1928 to 1930, Dam conducted studies on the cholesterol metabolism...

Nonfoods as Dietary Supplements

R. E. Hughes

R. E. Hughes

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Food: A substance (of natural origin) ingested to maintain life and growth. Diet: The habitual pattern of consumption of food and drink.Supplement: That which supplies a deficiency or fulfills a need.The semantically inclined will,...

Vitamin B Complex: Thiamine, Riboflavin, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Pyridoxine, Cobalamin, Folic Acid

Daphne A. Roe

Daphne A. Roe

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...The history of the discovery of the B vitamins includes both the recognition that particular diseases can result from dietary inadequacies and the subse quent isolation of specific nutrients from foods that have been found to prevent...

Appetite

Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food Words : Essays in Culinary Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Appetite is a complex word, encompassing medical, biological, social, and cultural aspects. Like taste, it involves both physiological and sociocultural dimensions. Quoting from the mission statement of the academic journal Appetite gives...

Sodium and Hypertension

Thomas W. Wilson

Thomas W. Wilson

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Clarence E. Grim

Clarence E. Grim

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© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Historically, dietary salt (sodium chloride) has been obtained by numerous methods, including solar evaporation of seawater, the boiling down of water from brine springs, and the mining of “rock” salt (Brisay and Evans 1975). In fact,R. P....

Iron

Susan Kent

Susan Kent

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Patricia Stuart-Macadam

Patricia Stuart-Macadam

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...Iron has played a critical role in the evolution of life. The ancient Greeks, believing iron to be a special gift sent to earth by one of the gods, named it sideros, or star (Liebel, Greenfield, and Pollitt 1979). As the second most common...

Food Sensitivities: Allergies and Intolerances

Judy Perkin

Judy Perkin

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...Foods and beverages contain nutrients that are essential to human life, but they also contain elements that, for some individuals, may be harmful to health or even life-threatening. Foods and beverages may cause adverse reactions when...

Lactose Intolerance

K. David Patterson

K. David Patterson

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Lactose is a disaccharide composed of linked molecules of the simple sugars glucose and galactose. Dietary lactose is obtained almost exclusively from milk. Infants and young children digest lactose with an enzyme,lactase, which splits...

Potassium

David S. Newman

David S. Newman

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Potassium (K) is found in virtually all aerobic cells and is essential to life. It is the third most abundant element in the human body (after calcium and phosphorus) and the eighth most abundant element in the earth’s crust, with a mass...