Excerpt from Nutritional Physiology The making Of this book has been a study in elimination. It is, therefore, necessary at the outset to indicate the limits of its scope. It is intended that it shall be used with other books. Supplementary reading upon general biology, human anatomy, food chemistry, and dietetics is greatly to be desired. In the field of physiology itself many fascinating topics are entirely ignored and others treated in bare outline, with the purpose of subordinating all else to the subject of nutrition. Chemical formulae have been excluded from the text and used but sparingly in the notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.