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Nutrient composition of rations for short-term, high-intensity combat operations
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ISBN: 1280286393 9786610286393 0309549825 9780309549820 9780309096416 0309096413 9781280286391 6610286396 0309165040 Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academies Press

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Recognizing the importance of good nutrition for physical and mental status, the Department of Defense asked the Institute of Medicine to guide the design of the nutritional composition of a ration for soldiers on short-term, high-stress missions. This book considers military performance, health concerns, food intake, and food technology issues.


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Armies, wars and their food
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ISBN: 8175969385 9788175969384 9788175969186 8175969180 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Delhi Foundation Books

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In the history of mankind, armies fought at the behest of a ruler to conquer and expand territories. In due course, war crafts were devised and war logistics were developed. However, armies’ food remained much the same as ever for a very long time. Eventually science and technology played a crucial role in bringing army foods and nourishment to the expected level of modernity, commensurate with advancements in other features of the war craft. Armies, Wars and their Food traces the evolution of military rations and provides insights into the concept of nutrition for military from the point of a food scientist. The principal theme of the book is the historical development of armies and the supply and delivery systems prevalent at different periods of time. Providing a ready source of historical perspectives on the armies, it discusses the role of science and technology in instigating improvements in military ration. The book will appeal to students of food science and nutrition, army, navy and air force establishments, food industry laboratories and research and development organizations. General readers interested in the history of science and military history will also find this book useful.


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Food components to enhance performance
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ISBN: 030905088X 9786610210909 1280210907 0309568692 9780309568692 9781280210907 661021090X 9780309050883 Year: 1994 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press


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Feeding the Roman army
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ISBN: 1782975284 1782975268 9781782975267 9781782975281 1842173235 9781842173237 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Oakville, CT

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These ten papers from two Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (2007) sessions bring together a growing body of new archaeological evidence in an attempt to reconsider the way in which the Roman army was provisioned. Clearly, the adequate supply of food was essential to the success of the Roman military. But what was the nature of those supply networks? Did the army rely on imperial supply lines from the continent, as certainly appears to be the case for some commodities, or were provisions requisitioned from local agricultural communities? If the latter was the case, was unsustainable pre


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Eating mud crabs in Kandahar
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ISBN: 1283278219 9786613278210 0520949684 9780520949683 9780520268678 0520268679 0520385756 9781283278218 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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These sometimes harrowing, frequently funny, and always riveting stories about food and eating under extreme conditions feature the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world during the past twenty years. A profile of the former chef to Kim Jong Il of North Korea describes Kim's exacting standards for gourmet fare, which he gorges himself on while his country starves. A journalist becomes part of the inner circle of an IRA cell thanks to his drinking buddies. And a young, inexperienced female journalist shares mud crab in a foxhole with an equally young Hamid Karzai. Along with tales of deprivation and repression are stories of generosity and pleasure, sometimes overlapping. This memorable collection, introduced and edited by Matt McAllester, is seasoned by tragedy and violence, spiced with humor and good will, and fortified, in McAllester's words, with "a little more humanity than we can usually slip into our newspapers and magazine stories."

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