Volume 15 Issue 1

▪ Keyword : Nutritional Science, core elements, benchmarking

▪ Content : Benchmarking has been adopted by educational institutions as a potentially sensitive tool for improving learning and teaching. To date there has been limited application of benchmarking methodology in the Discipline of Nutritional Science.

▪ Keyword : Food trends, snacking, food-prepared-outside-the-home, take away foods

▪ Content : This study examined the trends in snacking behaviours and eating food-prepared-outside- the-home (FPOH) by Chinese children and adolescents using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The sample consisted of 3223 subjects aged 6-18 in 1991 and 2836 in 1997.

▪ Keyword : vitamin D deficiency, veiled women, Bangladesh

▪ Content : The present cross-sectional study was designed to evaluate the vitamin D status in three groups of women in Bangladesh by using serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (S-25-OHD), alkaline phosphatase (S-ALP), calcium (S-Ca) and phosphate (S-P).

▪ Keyword : compliance, soy, urinary isoflavonoids, biomarker, intervention

▪ Content : Clinical trials investigating the effects of soy food intake require high compliance with a dietary protocol. Measuring soy isoflavonoids in bodily fluids is the most objective method currently available in determining compliance to a soy diet.

▪ Keyword : sociodemographic, nutrition, vulnerability, assessment, food security

▪ Content : Three hundred and five Nigerian elderly from the Yoruba tribe of both rural and urban areas in the south Western zone of Nigeria were studied. The objective was to assess their nutritional status and identify indicators of nutritional vulnerability.

▪ Keyword : uric acid, correlation, cardiovascular risk factors, Hangzhou, China

▪ Content : The aim of this study was to investigate the uric acid status and its correlates in relation to selected cardiovascular risk factors in a cross-sectional study in Hangzhou, China. In this cross-sectional study, 186 male (56 ± 14 yrs) and 85 female (55 ± 11 yrs) free-living subjects were recruited from the Hangzhou metropolitan area, China. Their physiological parameters were measured.

▪ Keyword : phenolic phytochemicals, antioxidants, Lamiaceae, amylase, glucosidase

▪ Content : In the current study, we screened 7 clonal lines from single seed phenotypes of Lamiaceae family for the inhibition of α-amylase, α-glucosidase and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity. Water extracts of oregano had the highest α-glucosidase inhibition activity (93.7%), followed by chocolate mint (85.9%) and lemon balm (83.9%).

▪ Keyword : ABTS radical cation, Antioxidant activity, Relative antioxidant activity, Phenolics

▪ Content : Antioxidant compounds are abundantly available in plants and play an important role in scavenging free radicals, thus providing protection to humans against oxidative DNA damage. Mentha spicata Linn., commonly called spearmint, belongs to the family lamiaceae.

▪ Keyword : Editorial

▪ Content : Editorial

▪ Keyword : health claims, consumers, food labelling, packaged foods, Food Standards Australia New Zealand

▪ Content : Australia and New Zealand are currently reviewing the regulations governing nutrition function, health and related claims on foods. Health claims currently are not permitted on food labels, with one exception. The aim of this study was to describe the use of such claims on packaged food for sale in Australia (excluding nutrient content claims) prior to any changes to the regulations, and measure compliance with existing regulations.

▪ Keyword : grain feeding, beef cattle, omega -3 (n-3) fatty acids, trans fatty acids, functional fats

▪ Content : The influence of feeding systems on the levels of functional lipids and other fatty acid concentrations in Australian beef was examined. Rump, strip loin and blade cuts obtained from grass feeding, short-term grain feeding (80 days; STGF) and long-term grain feedlot rations (150-200 days; LTFL) were used in the present study.

▪ Keyword : dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, herbal remedies, drug interactions, depression

▪ Content : The use of dietary supplements has increased over the past 10 years, with up to 50% of adults being reported to have taken dietary supplements. The types of supplements taken are often related to physical morbidities. However, information about their use in combination with prescription drugs is lackin

▪ Keyword : dietary survey, food portions, food models, visual aids, adolescents, black or white children

▪ Content : In the present study, we examined how well adolescents (12-13 years) are able to select the correct dietary aid portion sizes after having been shown different food items. We also evaluated the effectiveness of twodimensional life-size drawings and three-dimensional food models, used as dietary aids in this process.

▪ Keyword : Thyroid hormones, iron deficiency, serum ferritin, adolescent girls

▪ Content : Extensive data from animal and human studies indicate that iron deficiency impairs thyroid metabolism. The aim of this study was to determine thyroid hormone status in iron-deficient adolescent girls. By stepwise random sampling from among all public high schools for girls in Lar and its vicinity in southern Iran, 103 out of 431 iron deficient subjects were selected.

▪ Keyword : adolescents, micronutrient deficiency, iron, zinc, folic acid

▪ Content : In order to determine the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies (iron, zinc and folate) in Sri Lankan adolescent school children and the extent to which multiple micronutrient deficiencies exist in this population, a cross-sectional survey (2003) in the Galle district of the micronutrient and anthropometric status of 945 school children of ages 12 – 16 years was performed.

▪ Keyword : adolescents, tribe, diet, nutritional status, body mass index

▪ Content : Tribal population constitutes about 8% of the total population in India. They are particularly vulnerable to undernutrition, because of their geographical isolation, socio-economic disadvantage and inadequate health facilities. Recognizing the problem, Government of India launched different programmes for their welfare. Adolescence is a significant period of growth and maturation.