Total Nutrition is the strategic use of a wide variety of disease avoidance and health maintenance measures which will contribute to an improved and more accetable system of animal production, without the use of antibiotics.

Total Nutrition helps to meet challenges where health maintenance, disease avoidance and general nutrition are seen as requirements of animal diets today.

Contents

1. Problems of Perception: Animal Production, Food Safety and Public Health
2. Virtues of Cleanliness: Food Quality and Hygiene
3. Eating to Live: Voluntary Feed Intake
4. Raw Material Processing: Digestion and Absorption of Nutrients
5. Struggle for Supremacy: Management of the Gastrointestinal Tract
6. External Enemies: Immune System and Defence in a Dangerous World
7. The Enemy Within: Non-Infectious Diseases and Oxidative Stress
8. Monitoring Performance: Assessment of Total Nutrition and Feeding Standards
9. Difficult Demands: Safe Food, Low Cost, Ethical Issues, Environmental Impact

Index

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