Nutrition and Laboratory Medicine

Nutrition and Laboratory Medicine R. Ayling, W. Marshall. London: ACB Venture Publications, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-902429-44-4. �30. 212 pp

The importance of nutrition for the maintenance of growth, development, good health and wellbeing has been recognised for a long time. Malnutrition is still to be found in many parts of the world and, in Western societies, is found mainly in the elderly or bedridden. Diseases, such as scurvy, caused by single nutrient deficiencies have been recognised for centuries but the precise mechanisms of action of many vitamins and nutrients have only been elucidated with the advancement of chemistry, biochemistry and physiology.

Moreover, since the …