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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 51, 259-263, Copyright © 1990 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

ORIGINAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Nutritional adaptation in man: general introduction and concepts

JC Waterlow
Division of Clinical Sciences, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.

The aim of this paper is to clarify thinking on the subject of nutritional adaptation. A series of concepts and questions are proposed with, as examples, some of the responses that occur to low intakes of energy and protein. The main conclusions are first, that in dealing with human beings value judgements cannot be avoided, but to avoid sterile discussion they must be separated from objective descriptions of adaptive responses. Second, the way ahead lies in examining the shape of the responses of different functions to different degrees and kinds of stress. Objective studies of this kind do not require use of the word adaptation.


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