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Nutrition, Growth, and Development

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The Year in Metabolism 1977

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Abstract

During 1976, there was considerable progress in investigating a number of areas concerned with nutrition and health. Three of these areas will be reviewed in detail:

  1. 1.

    Malnutrition and the mechanisms of cellular growth

  2. 2.

    Genetic obesity

  3. 3.

    Nutrition and pregnancy

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