Volume 10 Issue 1

▪ Keyword : Obituary

▪ Content : Obituary- Professor Vichai Tanphaichitr

▪ Keyword : iodine deficiency disorders, iodised salt, knowledge–attitude–practice study, Orissa (India)

▪ Content : A knowledge–attitude–practices (KAP) study was conducted along with a prevalence study of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) between 1998–99 in the district of Bargarh, Orissa state, India. A total of 635 people were interviewed by a pretested structured questionnaire, adopting the probability proportional to size cluster sampling method.

▪ Keyword : body mass index, Gansu Province (China), height, nutrition and growth, vitamin A

▪ Content : The association between serum vitamin A concentration and growth was assessed in a random sample of 650 children aged 0–14 years and 143 adolescents aged 15–19 years from the four prefectures of Jiayuguan, Linxia, Lanzhou and Tianshui in Gansu Province, China. Serum vitamin A concentrations were measured using a high performance liquid chromatograph. Height and weight were measured with standard methods.

▪ Keyword : glutamine, groundnuts, oral rehydration solution, short-chain fatty acids

▪ Content : The main substrates fuelling ion absorption in the mucosa of the small intestine and large intestine are respectively glutamine and short-chain fatty acids. Measurements now reported showed that derivation of both glutamine and fibre for short-chain fatty acid production can be achieved from a single foodstuff – macerated groundnuts. Macerated groundnuts may be more suitable as an additive in oral rehydration solutions for promoting ion absorption than other agents that are low either in glutamine or fibre, such as rice water or resistant starch.

▪ Keyword : different Mediterranean diets, food habits, Mediterranean diet, Sydney

▪ Content : Interest in Mediterranean diet began 30 years ago, when Ancel Keys published the results of the famous Seven Countries Study. Since 1945, almost 1.3 million people have come to Australia from Mediterranean countries as new settlers. There are 18 countries with coasts on the Mediterranean sea: Spain, southern France, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Malta, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. This study from which this report derives aims to investigate the influence of the food habits of immigrants from Mediterranean countries on Australian food intake.

▪ Keyword : coconut, fish, food culture, Indonesia, Minangkabau

▪ Content : Diet has a strong relationship with food culture and changes in it are likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of newly emergent degenerative diseases. To obtain in-depth opinions about the food culture of Minangkabau people, focus group discussions were conducted in a Minangkabau region, represented by four villages in West Sumatra, Indonesia, from January to March 1999.

▪ Keyword : exercise, guidelines, health promotion, New Zealand, nutrition

▪ Content : The aim of this study was to assess the awareness of national health promotion messages in a group of selfselected New Zealanders. This study involved 104 self-selected New Zealanders (41 men and 63 women) over the age of 40. Awareness of national health promotion messages was assessed using a mailed out questionnaire, and 69 of these were returned.

▪ Keyword : dietary diversity, dietary intake of women, food-based dietary guidelines, food variety analysis, sociocultural variations

▪ Content : The association between food variety and nutrient intake/health status among rural women was tested in two agro-ecological settings in Vietnam. Special emphasis was placed on the significance of wild vegetables ‘Rau Dai’ in micronutrient supply and on the usefulness of food variety analysis in determining their current role.

▪ Keyword : anthropometry, Cape Town, elderly, nutritional status, South African

▪ Content : A cross-sectional analytical study was undertaken to describe the nutritional status and dietary intake of the elderly black population of Cape Town. A stratified proportional sample of 148 men and women aged 60 years and older (mean = 68.9 ± 5.7) was selected from informal and formal peri-urban settlements. The study population was predominantly urbanized, although most subjects had migrated from non-urban areas.

▪ Keyword : Chinese, dietary factors, ethnic, Indians, Malays, serum cholesterol

▪ Content : In Singapore, there exists differences in risk factors for coronary heart disease among the three main ethnic groups: Chinese, Malays and Indians. This study aimed to investigate if differences in dietary intakes of fat, types of fat, cholesterol, fruits, vegetables and grain foods could explain the differences in serum cholesterol levels between the ethnic groups

▪ Keyword : body fat, healthy subjects, Hiroshima, Japan liquid-formula diet, medium-chain triacylglycerol

▪ Content : The effects of a liquid-formula diet supplement containing structured medium- and long-chain triacylglycerols (SMLCT) composed of medium- (10%) and long-chain (90%) fatty acids were compared with those of long chain triacylglycerols (LCT) on bodyfat accumulation in 13 healthy male volunteers aged 18–20 years. The subjects were randomly assigned the SMLCT or LCT group.

▪ Keyword : blood spot TSH, goitrogens, Gujarat; (Western India), iodine deficiency disorders

▪ Content : The main objective of this study was to assess the severity of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) in the adult populations of the Baroda and Dang districts from Gujarat, western India using biochemical prevalence indicators of IDD. The other aim of this study was to establish a biochemical baseline for adequate iodine intake as a result of program evolution in the face of multiple confounding factors, like malnutrition and goitrogens responsible for goiter.