25.10.2013
Promotion of titles of the series “Manuals and Guides”
Odbrana Media Centre presented today, at the 58th International Book Fair, its three publications from the series “Manuals and Guides“. These are books “Outdoors Survival” by Zvonko Pesic, “Nutrition” (the role in promotion of health and disease prevention) by Slavica Radjen, and “Military Museum in Belgrade" by co-authors Predrag Lazetic and Andjelija Radovic.Manual "Outdoors Survival” by the former director of Odbrana MC, Retired Colonel Zvonko Pesic, was written by simple and receptive language, tells how to survive in the conditions that we are not used to, living the urban life of today. Speaking about his book, Pesic, who has been a scout for a long time, said that it is a mixture of different experiences, scouting and military, but also practical and life-experience.
- It could be said that I have been collecting the material in this book during the last 50 years, working and living in conditions that are highly compatible to the wild nature. The book is not theoretical at all but it is just practical, with lot of tips, illustrations and instructions for how to survive in the nature. Author has announced three more books in this series that will deal with other areas of importance for the survival of a man in wild nature.
Publication "Nutrition” (role in health promotion and disease prevention) by Slavica Radjen, as it could have been heard, is intended not only to doctors and medical students, but also to ordinary people whose motto is – better safe than sorry.
- The book tells about common mistakes and misconceptions concerning nutrition. The biggest problem today, as opposed to some other time, it surplus of food that is taken in, whose biggest indicator is obesity, which is now very noticeable in children. With reduced physical activity, obesity is one of the biggest health problems today.
The author pointed out that much research was done in the matter of what is considered the optimal diet today and that the aim is to reconcile the benefit and pleasure of food intake.
- The importance of nutrition today is seen in the fact that there is a branch of therapy – medical nutrition therapy, and if we had to formulate three basic principles of healthy nutrition, then it would be regular eating, variety of food with intake of all kinds of foodstuffs and individual adaptation, the measure of which and the red line is the level of obesity.- Book, a kind of catalogue, "Military Museum in Belgrade" by Predrag Lazetic and Andjelija Radovic, is an excellent guide to exploring this eminent institution that, after the National Museum, is the oldest institution of its kind in Serbia. Speaking about the history of the Military Museum, one of the authors Predrag Lazetic said that the book is an attempt to present this chronology in brief, and that the museum, just like the Serbian people, had periods of suffering and exaltation.
Andjelija Radovic especially emphasized the most important collections and objects at disposal of the Military Museum and reminded that it includes all the categories that exist in museology today.
- 33,000 objects in 12 different collections, as witnesses of time from which they originate. Once a mighty weapon is testimony of certain period of time today - the co-author of a kind of catalogue “Military Museum in Belgrade” said.
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