In tropical africa is food enough to satisfy growth and energy needs enough of available varied foods including cassava legumes cereals vegetables locusts etc third a fair look into the local habits and beliefs is a prerequisite to introducing nutrition programmes many habits have been introduced recently useful. Book review human nutrition in tropical africa m c latham food and nutrition bulletin 1981 3 4 1 1 download citation if you have the appropriate software installed you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice simply select your manager software from the list below and click on download format tips on citation download download citation download . Human nutrition in tropical africa authors latham m c book fao food and nutrition series 1979 no11 ed 2 pp286pp abstract this paperback is described as a textbook for health workers with special reference to community health problems in east africa africa subject category geographic entities see more details it is the 1st revision 2nd edition of dr lathams practical . Human nutrition in tropical africa a textbook for health workers with special reference to community health problems in east africa 2nd edition authors latham m c. Written for medical and health workers in africa who have had some scientific education conducted in english and are conversant with general medical terminology this book is intended to encourage a scientific approach to the problems of nutrition and their solution not primarily concerned with nutrition in its agricultural sociological or educational aspects it is written very much from a