FOR RELEASE: Oct. 22, 1997
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Today, about 780 million people in developing countries
still do not have access to enough food to meet their basic daily needs for
nutritional well-being.
To review the nature of hunger and malnutrition in the world today,
describe the causes and ways to deal with hunger and malnutrition and
discuss international food and nutrition issues, Michael Latham, M.D.,
professor of international nutritional sciences at Cornell University, has
authored a new text, Human Nutrition in the Developing World (Food
and Agriculture Organization [FAO]of the United Nations, 1997, $52).
"Good nutrition is a basic human right for all of humankind; that one-fifth
of the developing world does not have adequate food is unacceptable and of
the deepest concern," says Latham, a physician, expert in international
nutrition and tropical public health and former director of Cornell's
Program in International Nutrition for 25 years.
Intended for students of international nutrition and as a reference book
for workers in agriculture, health, education and other fields who are
concerned with nutritional problems in developing countries, the 508-page,
41-chapter text takes an applied and multidisciplinary approach to
science-based information on food, nutrients, causes of malnutrition,
nutritional disorders and their prevention, and nutrition policies and
programs. This book strongly emphasizes that ensuring adequate food, care
and public health are essential approaches for sustainable improvement of
nutritional status.
The new book, which will be available in French and Spanish in 1998,
includes photographs, index and bibliography and five appendices.
"This book provides detailed information in a simple and practical manner,"
said John R. Lupien, director of the FAO Food and Nutrition Division. "We
at FAO are extremely grateful to Professor Latham for sharing his vast
knowledge of nutrition."
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Latham is also the author of Human Nutrition in Tropical Africa
(1965, 1979), Nutrition: A Scope Manual (1980) and more than 350
journal articles. He frequently serves as a consultant in Africa, Asia and
Latin America for the World Health Organization (WHO), FAO, UNICEF, the
World Bank and the White House.
In 1994, he consulted with Fidel Castro on how to curb Cuba's neuropathy
epidemic, and in 1965, at age 37, he was awarded the Order of the British
Empire by Queen Elizabeth for "distinguished service in Tanzania."
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