Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS -- The Evolution of Nutrition Research in Britain and Other European Countries -- DIET AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE -- Perspectives from Eastern Europe -- Diet and Cardiovascular Disease: The Nordic Experience -- Diet and Cardiovascular Disease: A South Pacific Perspective -- Pathogenic and Protective Nutritional Factors in Coronary Heart Disease -- DIET AND SELECTED HEALTH PROBLEMS -- Diet and Hypertension -- The Role of Diet in Chronic Renal Disease Progression -- Diet and Obesity -- Diet and Diabetes -- DIET AND HEALTH MAINTENANCE -- Diet in Relation to Osteoporosis -- Nutrition in Relation to Alcohol Use -- Role of Diet in Health Maintenance throughout Life -- Nutritional Problems of the Elderly -- DIET AND CANCER -- Dietary Mutagens and Carcinogens: Heterocyclic Amines -- Nutrition in Relation to Stomach Cancer and Stroke Mortality -- Epidemiology of Breast and Colon Cancers: Old Risk Factors, New Mechanisms? -- Cancer: Influences of Fat and Calories -- PRIORITIES FOR NUTRITION RESEARCH IN CANADA -- THE JOINT STEERING COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL NUTRITION PLAN FOR CANADA, 1996 Nutrition for Health: An Agenda for Action -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.