Volume 14 Issue 1

▪ Keyword : elderly, Mediterranean diet, culture, survival, longevity, social factors, exercise

▪ Content : In 1987, the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) subcommittee on Nutrition and Ageing, in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO) global program for the elderly, embarked on the ‘Food Habits in Later Life’ (FHILL): a cross-cultural study to determine to what extent health, social and lifestyle variables, especially food intake, collectively predict survival amongst long-lived culture

▪ Keyword : abdominal fatness, public health, cut-off values, body mass index, obesity

▪ Content : Previous studies have suggested the need to revise the World Health Organization (WHO) cut-off values for the various indices of obesity and fat distribution in Singapore. The purpose of this study was to delineate cut-off points of body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio (WHR), waist circumference (WC), and waist-stature ratio (WSR) as screening tools for cardiovascular risk factors in Singaporean women.

▪ Keyword : tribal population, anthropometry, body mass index, nutritional status, Bathudis

▪ Content : A cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine anthropometric profile and nutritional status based on body mass index (BMI) of adult Bathudis, a tribal population of Orissa, India. A total of 409 adult (aged > 18 years) Bathudis of three villages of Anandapur, Keonjhar District, Orissa, India, were studied.

▪ Keyword : energy expenditure, carbon dioxide production, exercise prescription, sodium bicarbonate

▪ Content : The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of the [14C]-sodium bicarbonate/urea technique to detect physical activity-induced increases in total energy expenditure in free-living healthy men. Thirteen healthy males aged 34.1 ± 11.7 yrs with body mass index 24.1 ± 3.1 kg/m2 were studied on three separate occasions, during which [14C]-bicarbonate was infused over 48-hours and urine was collected during the second 24-hours.

▪ Keyword : lupin, glycaemic index, insulinaemic index, satiety, palatability

▪ Content : The addition of some legume ingredients to bread has been associated with effects on glycaemic, insulinaemic and satiety responses that may be beneficial in controlling type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity. However, the effect of Australian sweet lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) flour (ASLF) is unknown.

▪ Keyword : short bowel syndrome, growth hormone, glutamine, high carbohydrate low fat diet

▪ Content : This study assessed the safety and efficacy of growth hormone (GH) and glutamine (GLN) combined with a modified (high-carbohydrate-low-fat, HCLF) diet in patients with short bowel syndrome. A meta-analysis of all the relevant clinical trials was performed.

▪ Keyword : anti-inflammatory agents, non-steroidal, adverse effects, small intestine, intestinal damage

▪ Content : The aim of this study was to examine whether bovine colostrum was able to prevent the NSAID induced small intestinal damage in animals. The animal model population of the study consisted of 4 groups: control group, diclofenac group, diclofenac with 10% low fat milk group and diclofenac with 5% colostrum group.

▪ Keyword : nomads, gels, food consumption, tea, milk (sheep/goat), nutrient intake, traditional food habits

▪ Content : The subjects, from Mongolian-style gel tribes, aged 6-79 years, living in three different areas of Inner Mongolia, were asked about their daily food consumption in August 2001 using the 24-hr dietary recall method.

▪ Keyword : adolescent girls, stunting, dietary pattern, factory workers

▪ Content : This cross-sectional study examined the physical status, nutrient intake and dietary pattern of adolescent female factory workers in urban Bangladesh. A total of 1211 postmenarchial girls aged 14-19y from seventeen readymade garment industries spread over the Dhaka City participated in the study.

▪ Keyword : iodine nutrition, pregnancy, public health, Australia, Vietnamese

▪ Content : The iodine status of pregnant women from different ethnic groups in an Australian population was determined by measuring urinary iodine concentration (UIC) from stored spot urine samples. Study subjects were selected from pregnant women participating in a Down Syndrome screening study at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

▪ Keyword : iodine, iodine deficiency disorders, intelligence, IQ, children, meta-analysis

▪ Content : This study quantifies the effects of iodine on the intellectual development of children using a systematic manual literature search of Chinese publications related to iodine deficiency disorders. The Chinese Medical Reference Database, Medline, and Cochrane library were searched electronically in Chinese and English

▪ Keyword : vitamin A fortified coconut cooking oil, vitamin A status, serum retinol concentration

▪ Content : A 6-month intervention trial was conducted among 542 Filipino children aged 4 to 7 years to determine the effect of vitamin A-fortified coconut cooking oil intake on their vitamin A status and to identify factors that influence this.

▪ Keyword : under-reporting, over-reporting, BMI, lifestyle, Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study

▪ Content : Under- and over-reporting of energy intake are problems in dietary intake assessment. This study was conducted to assess the correlates of under- and over-reporting of energy intake in Tehranians. Dietary data on 947 participants (415 males and 532 females) of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study was collected by trained interviewers using two 24-hour recalls.

▪ Keyword : waist girth, body build, waist reference girth, waist deviation, abdominal obesity

▪ Content : Waist girth (WG) is regarded as the most significant anthropometric parameter associated with cardiovascular risk. The objective of the present study was to strengthen WG as an obesity marker by basing WG assessment not on gender but on individually measured body build characteristics that need not coincide with gender.

▪ Keyword : abdominal obesity, diabetes, body mass index, fat mass, premenopausal women

▪ Content : People of Indian origin develop type 2 diabetes at a relatively young age and low body mass index compared to people of other racial groups, possibly because of preferential accumulation of abdominal fat. We examined the relationship between abdominal fat and body mass index (BMI) in healthy premenopausal women of different racial groups, and compared abdominal fat measurements at different ages.