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Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge : Back to the Basics;

Ever since sailors noticed that scurvy could be prevented with citrus fruits, it

has been clear that illness could be caused by a lack of certain nutrients.

While nutrient-enriched products have reduced diseases caused by vitamin

deficiency in the developed countries, the problem continues to plague the

developing world. And many in poorer countries suffer from the twin problems of

poor nutrition and unsafe water, which create a disease burden that is almost

unbearable. Back to the Basics explores the connection between health and the

essential requirements that so many people take for granted. It also examines

how an overabundance of nutrition - in the form of over-consumption - is causing

an epidemic of obesity that is spreading across the globe.

Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge : How Safe Are We?

During the past 100 years, life expectancy more than doubled in developed

countries. In the last few decades, however, thirty new infectious diseases have

emerged and one of them - AIDS - is becoming perhaps the most devastating

epidemic in history. New diseases travel the globe with unprecedented rapidity,

and older killers that once seemed controllable are roaring back with a

vengeance. How Safe Are We? examines the most critical threats we face today -

including avian flu - and the pressing need to strengthen global public health

systems.