Polar Journeys: The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration

by Robert Feeney

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In this unique book, distinguished biochemist Robert E. Feeney relates the history of polar exploration to the history of the science of nutrition, showing, for example, how advances in food preservation helped make possible human survival on the expeditions. The text covers the problems caused by too scant a supply of vitamins, most notably the role of diminished vitamin C in scurvy and too much of a good thing, in the case of hypervitaminosis from...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0841233497

ISBN13:9780841233492

Release Date:November 1997

Publisher:University of Alaska Press

Length:279 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Related Subjects

Agricultural Sciences Arctic & Antarctica Chemistry Clinical Engineering Expeditions & Discoveries Food Science Health Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting

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