Norman Temple
Professor, Nutrition
Centre for Science
Athabasca University
Canada
Biography
My academic interests are in diet in relation to the diseases of lifestyle, such as heart disease. I have written 85 papers on my research (see below). I have also written or edited 15 books, including: Western Diseases: Their Dietary Prevention and Reversibility (with Denis Burkitt) (1994) Excessive Medical Spending: Facing the Challenge (2007) Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention (3rd edition, 2012) Community Nutrition for Developing Countries (2016) Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related Healthcare Professionals (2nd edition, 2017)
Research Interest
I have made several trips to Cape Town, South Africa, where I carry out research in collaboration with my colleagues there. This work has centred on the role of the changing diet in South Africa on the pattern of diseases in that country, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease
Publications
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Temple NJ, Steyn K, Hoffman M, Levitt NS, Lombard CJ (2001). The epidemic of obesity in South Africa: a study in a disadvantaged community. Ethnicity Disease 11: 431-437.
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Temple NJ (2000). Antioxidants and disease: more questions than answers. Nutrition Research 20: 449-459.
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Temple NJ (1999). Survey of nutrition knowledge of Canadian physicians. Journal of the American College of Nutrition 18: 26-29.
