Volume 16 Issue 4

▪ Keyword : orbituary

▪ Content : Obituary for Professor Akira Okada (1938-2007), Co-founding Editor of APJCN

▪ Keyword : : IOTF, Korean children, obesity, overweight, percent body fat

▪ Content : Objective: To predict the percent body fat (%BF) cutoff values corresponding to overweight and obesity recommended by the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) in Korean children and to compare those values with the published cutoff values in Caucasian children.

▪ Keyword : Mini Nutritional Assessment, elderly, BMI, calf circumference, Taiwan

▪ Content : The objective of this study was to determine the population-specific cut-points of body mass index (BMI), midarm circumference (MAC) and calf circumference (CC) for identifying subnormal nutritional status in elderly Taiwanese, and to evaluate the possibility of improving the functionality of the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) by adopting these cut-points.

▪ Keyword : obesity, body mass index, physical activity, Asians

▪ Content : Body fatness, physical activity, and nutritional behaviours were assessed in 112 (50 male, 62 female) Asian Indians living in New Zealand. Participants were aged 44-91 years (mean 67.5 ± 7.6) and had lived in New Zealand on average 51 months. Height, weight, and waist circumference were measured to determine body mass index (BMI) and central adiposity.

▪ Keyword : Obesity, diabetes, lifestyle, physical activity, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry

▪ Content : The objective of this study was to assess the impact of a group diet and physical activity intervention on body composition, blood lipid profile and insulin resistance in migrant Asian Indian volunteers.

▪ Keyword : obesity, body mass index, weight change, incidence, type 2 diabetes

▪ Content : This study aimed to investigate the relation of obesity and changes in body weight through adulthood with risks of type 2 diabetes. This study of 954 middle-aged women free of diabetes (mean age, 37.1±9.6 years) was conducted in a hospital.

▪ Keyword : BMI, overweight, obesity, weight loss, chronic disease

▪ Content : Objective: To investigate lay peoples’ knowledge of health risks of overweight, accuracy of self-perception of body weight and perceived benefits of weight loss.

▪ Keyword : overweight/obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, anthropometry, BMI, Aborigines, indigenous

▪ Content : Objective: To evaluate waist-to-height ratio (WTHR), waist girth and body mass index (BMI) as predictors of cardiovascular risk factors in Australian Aborigines. Design: Indices were examined as predictors of mean blood pressures (BP), blood lipids, glucose, insulin and as predictors of hypertension, decreased HDL-cholesterol, elevated glucose and type 2 diabetes.

▪ Keyword : atherosclerosis, cardiovascular diseases (CVD), carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), folate

▪ Content : Although hyperhomocysteinemia is considered to be a key risk factor for atherosclerosis, especially in Western countries, its role in the Asian population is still controversial.

▪ Keyword : pregnancy, physical activity, low birth weight, nutrition, India

▪ Content : Introduction: Earlier studies in India have demonstrated an inverse relationship between physical activity and birth weight in rural women who had high levels of physical activity related to agricultural and domestic activities. There are no data on urban Indian women from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds with varying levels of physical activity.

▪ Keyword : Chicken-formula, cow milk allergy, soy-formula., Thailand, infants

▪ Content : Objective: To determine whether chicken-based formula can replace soy-based formula in infants with cow milk allergy. Subjects and Methods: Thirty-eight infants with cow’s milk allergy, aged between 2-24 months of age were randomized to receive either chicken-based formula or soy-based formula for 14 days.

▪ Keyword : nuts, body weight, body mass index, weight loss

▪ Content : There is currently no single dietary or lifestyle intervention that is effective in long-term weight loss. Traditional weight loss diets tend to be low in total fat and therefore often restrict nut consumption. However, nuts are an important source of many vitamins, minerals, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids

▪ Keyword : iron deficiency, anemia, parasite, children, Vietnam

▪ Content : Objectives: This study hypothesized that besides iron deficiency, intestinal parasites infection is also a determinant of anemia in schoolchildren in rural Vietnam. Methods: 400 primary schoolchildren from 20 primary schools in Tam Nong district, a poor rural area in Vietnam, were randomly selected from enrolment lists.

▪ Keyword : iron deficiency anaemia, soil-transmitted helminthiases, protein-energy malnutrition

▪ Content : We conducted a cross sectional study to examine the association of intestinal parasitic infections and protein energy malnutrition (PEM) with iron-status indicators and anaemia among Orang Asli children in Selangor, Malaysia. A total of 281 children aged 2 - 15 years were studied. T

▪ Keyword : iodine deficiency, schoolchildren, Universal Salt Iodization, intelligence

▪ Content : This investigation aims to observe the intelligence and psychomotor development of the schoolchildren in iodine deficiency (ID) areas after the adoption of Universal Salt Iodization (USI), and evaluate the effect of the adoption of USI on their intelligence and psychomotor development. 564 schoolchildren (306 males and 258 females, age range from 8 to 13 yrs) from areas with severe, moderate, and mild ID were investigated.

▪ Keyword : adolescent, diet, food intake, nutrition, rural, urban

▪ Content : Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the food intake patterns of adolescents with respect to the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, and to examine variations in food intake patterns by age, gender and region of residence. Design: Cross-sectional online food survey administered through schools.

▪ Keyword : social class, adolescents, food habits, nutrition, Australia

▪ Content : Many adolescents have diets that are less than optimal, particularly adolescents of low socioeconomic position (SEP). The determinants of SEP differences in adolescent dietary intake are poorly understood. This study examined the home food environments of adolescents and specifically investigated whether low SEP adolescents have less supportive home meal environments, fewer eating rules and poorer home availability of fruit and vegetables than adolescents of high SEP.

▪ Keyword : dietary assessment, risk factors, cardiovascular diseases, urban health

▪ Content : Diet and nutritional status have been shown to play pivotal roles in the occurrence of many chronic diseases. In this study, we examined the patterns of dietary habits and their relationships with risk factors for cardiovascular and chronic diseases in Hong Kong working populations.

▪ Keyword : meal distribution, relative validity, reproducibility, meal-based food frequency questionnaire, Taiwan

▪ Content : Food frequency questionnaire is an important assessment tool for public health nutrition research. We describe the development history and conducted the validity and reproducibility studies for a meal-based Chinese food frequency questionnaire (Chinese FFQ) by five meal sequences.

▪ Keyword : review, book

▪ Content : 1. The Hundred Year Lie: How food and medicine are destroying your health 2. Essentials of human nutrition 3. Nutritional Anemia & The Guidebook Nutritional Anemia

▪ Keyword : lactase, lactose intolerance, China, population, polymorphism

▪ Content : The frequency of lactase persistence varies widely in human populations. Study showed that the T allele of a C/T transition 13910bp upstream from exon 1 of lactase gene (LCT) was completely associated with lactase persistence in a Finnish population.

▪ Keyword : small dense low-density lipoprotein, moderate exercise, sedentary women

▪ Content : The potential benefit of aerobic exercise upon cardiovascular disease (CVD) through an increasing high-density lipoproteins (HDLs) is acknowledged. However, its effects on low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) and their subpopulations, are unknown in Thailand.

▪ Keyword : purple sweet potato leaves, polyphenols, basketball, training, immune response

▪ Content : The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the consumption of purple sweet potato leaves (PSPLs) on the immune response and the modulation of that response in 15 basketball players during a training period. They completed the 7-week study consisted of a run-in period (week 1), a PSPLs diet (200 g PSPLs/d; weeks 2, 3), a washout period (weeks 4, 5), and a control diet (low polyphenols content and carotenoid content adjusted to the same level as that of PSPLs diet; weeks 6 and 7).

▪ Keyword : fruits, stir-fried vegetables, β-carotene β-crytoxanthin

▪ Content : We examined the plasma levels of carotenoids in young adults after a dietary intervention composed of increased intakes of fruits and stir-fried vegetables from a Taiwanese mixed diet.

▪ Keyword : plant sterols, lipoprotein kinetics, dyslipidemia, cholesterol absorption

▪ Content : Dietary plant sterols supplementation has been demonstrated in some studies to lower plasma total and LDL cholesterol in hypercholesterolemic subjects. The cholesterol lowering action of plant sterols remains to be investigated in subjects with the metabolic syndrome.

▪ Keyword : Omega–3 fatty acids, chronic disease, dietary patterns, Okinawan Round Table on Nutrition and CVD

▪ Content : A Indonesian Advisory Group on Fatty Acid Nutrition and Health was established in 2004 to consider the increasing incidence of nutritionally-related cardiovascular disease in Indonesia. Emerging international recommendations often focused on dietary fat and may not have been relevant to the national situation.

▪ Keyword : body fat, skinfolds, underwater weighing, bioelectrical impedance, anthropometry

▪ Content : Objective: to investigate the accuracy of bioelectric impedance analysis and anthropometry to assess percentage body fat (BF %) against underwater weighing (UW). Design and Methods: a cross sectional study, 102 girls, aged 11-15, were recruited from two Junior High Schools in Jakarta.