Must-Have Reference For Survivalists
Considered the Alpha and the Omega Consulting Reference by the United Nations on Treating Mass Famine and Starvation
This is one of those rare books you hear about but is a real problem to locate. Used all over the world by international reporting agencies and researchers into famine.
Second only to the MERCK manual in it’s potential usefulness during a protracted famine for diagnosing, qualifying and treating nutritional deficiencies. Most of the symptomatic evaluation is aimed at the low budget, low resource local treatment that is often all that is available in many circumstances … making it ideal for cut-rate survivalists who do not have a field hospital otherwise for remedies.
This is an exhaustive, definitive 2300 page (!) reference guide to the subject with 12 chapters consolidating all the most useful knowledge on the field into one single desk reference!
1. General Aspects of Famine and Undernutrition: Setting the Scene
2. Effects of Famine
3. Food Insecurity, Security, and Waste
4. Biosocial and Social Aspects, Inequalities, Low Income, Refugees, and Conflict
5. Hunger and Anorexia
6. Screening Tools, Classifications, and Applications
7. Medical Causes of Malnutrition, Prevalence, and Impact
8. Effects of Undernutrition, Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Tissue Systems
9. Life Stages, Pregnancy, the Young and Elderly
10. Micronutrients
11. Modeling Systems, Cellular and Molecular Effects
12. International Aspects, Policy, Management, Case Study, and Resources
This makes it a very useful candidate for an LLM to consult as an authoritative reference as well as a field guide for mere first responders and ditch medicine to determine how to treat people who have specific deficiencies in their diets that could be life threatening.
“Handbook of Famine, Starvation and Nutrient Deprivation” (2019)
(Added to the Memex)
Regards, Tex