Authors:J.P. McLaughlin, E.S. Simopoulos, F. Steinhäusler,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: environment, natural, vii, radiation, rhodes, greece, nre, radioactivity, seventh, volume, international, symposium
Number of Pages: 1575
Published: 2005-05-18
List price: $291.00
ISBN-10: 0080441378
ISBN-13: 9780080441375

The Natural Radiation Environment Symposium (NRE VII), the Seventh in the NRE series, which commenced forty years ago in 1963 at Rice University Texas, was held in Rhodes (Greece) in May 2002. During the intervening four decades the research work presented at these NRE Symposia has contributed to a deeper understanding of natural radiation and in particular of its contribution to human radiation exposures.It is clear from the quality and diversity of the 143 papers in this volume of Radioactivity in the Environment series that the study of the natural radiation environment is an active and con

Authors:Artemis P. Simopoulos, Leslie G. Cleland,
Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
Keywords: omega, world, review, nutrition, dietetics, evidence, scientific, essential, fatty, acid, ratio
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2003-09
List price: $198.25
ISBN-10: 3805576404
ISBN-13: 9783805576406

Studies on the evolutionary aspects of diet and molecular studies included in this volume indicate that human beings evolved on a diet that was balanced in the essential fatty acids (EFA). In fact, the ratio of omega - 6/omega - 3 EFA was 1/1, whereas present day diets in both developed and developing countries have a much higher ratio, between 5/1 and 50/1. Additional studies show that a high ratio of omega - 6/omega - 3 EFA is detrimental to health and may lead to the development of chronic diseases. Improving the dietary ratio by decreasing the omega - 6 fatty acids and increasing the omega