Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Ecology of Food and Nutrition is an internatibnal journal of the nutritional sciences. I t particularly emphasizes foods and their utilintion in satisfying the nutritional needs of mankind, but extends also to nonfood contributions: to obesity and leanness, malnutrition, vitamin requirements, and mineral needs. The scope is broad, and the content wide, so that culture prohibitions, traditional usages, marketing and transport problems, additives and food quality are also areas for consideration. Many of the contributors are trained in nutrition, nutritional sciences and food technology. Others represent the behavioral sciences, human geography. and food industry and its critici. Such problems as taste, flavor and texture are as germane to this journal as interactions between nutrition and disease, nutrition and physical fitness, problems of pregnancy and age, of contaminants and standards of purity. An anthropologist may consider food utilization in a particular culturc, a lawyer may write on regulations and enforcement, but an enzymologist may describe enzyme inhibitors. No nutrient stands by itself, no food is complete by itself, and even a chemically defined diet becomes indefinite in the whole complex of alimentation and metabolism. This journal has an ecological perspective, and includes contributions by ecologists in general and human ecologists in particular.