Contents: - Introduction and overview - Nutritional deprivation - Nutrition and mental development - Assessment of nutritional status - Food production - Food distribution systems: Trade and marketing - Poverty and its relationship to malnutrition: Strategies for increasing the purchasing power of the poor - Food and population: Fertility and nutrition - Infant feeding patterns: The bottle feeding problem - Social and cultural values as they affect nutrition - Education and nutrition: Modification of food habits - Synthesis: Nutrition interventions, planning and policy making - Appendix I-V - Index