PROCEEDINGS. SYMPOSIA ON ARCTIC BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE. V. NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SURVIVAL IN THE COLD AND AT ALTITUDE.

Abstract

CONTENTS: Nutritional Effects on Human Performance in the Cold; Water and Caloric Requirements as Predicted from Environmental Conditions and Physical Activity; Studies on Protein Metabolism in Hard Muscular Work in Relation to its Nutritional Requirement; Carbohydrate and Fat Metabolism During Prolonged Physical Work; British Polar Expeditions--Nutritional Developments and Research; Adaptation to Austere Diets; Modification of the Wolff Integrating Motor Pneumotachograph for Arctic Use; A Therapeutic Approach to Arctic Survival Rations; Some Enzymatic and Cardiovascular Effects of Starvation-Refeeding Stress; Metabolic Problems of High Altitude Operations; Nutrition and Fluid Balances in High Altitude Mountaineering.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0637887

Entities

People

  • David A. Vaughan
  • Lucile Vaughan
  • Terence A. Rogers

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Carbohydrates
  • High Altitude
  • Metabolism
  • Motor Skills
  • Nutrition
  • Nutrition Disorders
  • Physical Activity
  • Protein Metabolism
  • Rations
  • Survival
  • Survival Rations
  • Symposia

Readers

  • Cardiovascular Physiology
  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Polar and Arctic Studies