The aim of this volume is to continue to increase the understanding of epidemiology and nutritional rehabilitation of diarrhoeal disease. A major paediatric problem worldwide, diarrhoeal disease causes immense suffering and millions of deaths each year. Children with gastrointestinal infection are particularly affected nutritionally due to closer ...
Travel back to the 1960s and walk the halls of Chicago's Cook County Hospital with Douglas R. Gracey, a medical intern eager to learn the ways of medicine, help patients and impress his colleagues. Back then, medical education was different. Diagnosis was not so certain, treatment options were severely limited and patients, for the most part, ...
In this volume, international experts in nutrition, paediatrics, internal medicine, sports medicine and the basic sciences provide a view of the role of sugars in health and disease. The contributors examine the digestion, absorption, metabolism and physiological effects of sugars, present insights on congenital and acquired disorders of sugar ...
Seldom will you find a book that deals so powerfully or comprehensively with the understanding of the mind of Christ in the face of adversity. He Lifted Me up is the systematic rationale of one woman's triumph as she refused to let circumstances and facts mar her faith or steal her victory. Mary Truman Gracey is a living, breathing, walking ...
The Early Days, Volume one of the trilogy, OWMC-The "Wasted" Years, is the account of a fourteen-year-long battle against a proposed toxic waste treatment plant slated for the Niagara Peninsula in Southern Ontario. The Ontario Waste Management Corporation (OWMC) announced in September of 1985 that it had chosen LF-9C in West Lincoln as the ...
You can fight city hall- and win! The trilogy, The Wasted Years, tells of a small farming community's fourteen-year-long battle against the Ontario Waste Management Corporation (OWMC) and its proposed toxic waste treatment plant. Start with- a Crown Corporation with authority to supersede all municipal laws. Give it- a mandate to site and build a ...
Marilyn gazed out over the water, sparkling in the brilliant sunlight. The scent of lake water and sand filled her with a momentary sense of peace as she watched the waves lap rhythmically along the shoreline. Then she sighed deeply. Despite the blue sky overhead, all she could see were the dark clouds of the impending cross-examination by the ...
1956. Port Arthur, Texas, a quiet town filled with good people and little excitement throughout the fifties, but it was called the 'Wicked City' because of the gambling, prostitution and political corruption. After 1960, the town experienced changes that would forever change this Gulf Coast city. 1986. Houston. A young man, born and raised in Port ...
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