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Nutritional Studies in Croatia – A Century of Research
Saša Missoni
Abstract
This paper is dedicated to the pioneers of nutritional research in Croatia: to Professor Edvin Ferber, Professor Hubert
Maver and Professor Ratko Buzina, to whom we owe exceptional contribution in the development of science of nutrition,
as well as for many scientific publications from the fifties to the eighties in the 20th century, leaving us great information
about nutritional state in Croatian population. The paper brings a review of nuitritional research in Croatia with an emphasis
on history of research and papers published in Collegium Antropologicum. Since first publications on the subject,
a number of institutions and scholars participated in numerous research projects which resulted in a vast number of
published papers, depicting a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. In addition, the results of 44 analyses that have
been a part of doctoral (18) and master’s research (26) are discussed.
Keywords
nutritional research; anthropological history; Croatia; literature review
Hrčak ID:
27587
URI
Publication date:
12.5.2006.
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