Volume 16 Supplement 2

▪ Keyword : Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan Elementary School Children, NAHSIT Children 2001-2002, double malnutrition burden, database

▪ Content : This special issue on the Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan Elementary School Children carried out during 2001-2002 (NAHSIT Children 2001-2002) portrays the current dilemma of the so-called “double nutritional burden” in Taiwanese children with papers addressing topics on the dietary characteristics, nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, usage of nutritional supplements, nutritional biochemistry, and various aspects of diet, nutrition, behavior, health and wellbeing in children.

▪ Keyword : bone, Taiwan, children, QUS, survey

▪ Content : Bone health status in childhood and adolescence may be important factors influencing the attainment of peak bone mass.

▪ Keyword : serum urate, hyperuricemia, metabolic syndrome, abdominal obesity, elementary school children, Taiwan

▪ Content : Metabolic fitness in childhood is of increasing concern in transitional and advanced economies as the metabolic syndrome (MS) is recognized more often in this age group.

▪ Keyword : elementary school children, nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitude, nutrition behaviour, dietary quality

▪ Content : The purpose of this study is to understand nutrition knowledge, attitude, and behavior in Taiwanese elementary school children, and the relationship of these various components.

▪ Keyword : schoolchildren, obesity, prevalence, comorbidities, Taiwanese

▪ Content : To evaluate the prevalence of obesity and its comorbidities among a representative sample of elementary school children in Taiwan, the Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan Elementary School Children used a stratified, multi-staged complex sampling scheme.

▪ Keyword : food availability, snack intake, food frequency, food environment, 4 th-6th graders

▪ Content : The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the snack intake and snack availability of elementary school children. Data analyzed were from 722 4th to 6th graders’ food availability and food intake questionnaires collected in the Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan Elementary School Children 2001-2002.

▪ Keyword : survey, schoolchildren, nutrition, diet, health

▪ Content : The “Nutrition and Health Survey of Taiwan’s Elementary School Children (2001-2002)” was to investigate the nutritional status, influential dietary and non-dietary factors, health and development, and school performance, as well as the inter-relationships among these factors.

▪ Keyword : 24-hour recall, elementary school children, food sources, Nutrition and Health Survey, Daily Reference Intakes

▪ Content : The aim of the study was to investigate nutrient intake and their dietary sources in Taiwanese children ages 6-12 years by analyzing the 24-hour recall data of 2386 participants from a nationally representative sample.

▪ Keyword : dietary supplements, elementary school children, school performance, emotion, cognition

▪ Content : Dietary supplement consumption practices among 2417 children (1295 boys and 1122 girls) aged 6 to 12 years in Taiwan were derived from the Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan Elementary School Children (NAHSIT 2001-2002).

▪ Keyword : thiamin status, riboflavin status, elementary schoolchildren, biochemical assessment, Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan Elementary School Children (2001-2002)

▪ Content : In The Nutrition and Health Survey of Taiwan Elementary School Children (NAHSIT Children 2001~2002), erythrocyte activity coefficients of transketolase (ETKAC) and glutathione reductase (EGRAC) were chosen as indices for assessing the functional status of thiamin and riboflavin nutriture.

▪ Keyword : folate intake, serum folate, RBC folate, schoolchildren, NAHSIT 2000-2001

▪ Content : The folate status and dietary folate intake of Taiwanese schoolchildren was investigated by analysis of both serum and red blood cell (RBC) folate levels and dietary folate intake in 1105 boys and 958 girls aged 6-13 years sampled from the Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan Elementary School Children 2001-2002 (NAHSIT Children 2001-2002).

▪ Keyword : magnesium intake, serum magnesium, elementary school children, asthma, nutrition and health survey in Taiwan

▪ Content : The purpose of this study was to investigate magnesium nutritional status and its association with asthma in elementary school children (1277 boys and 1109 girls) participating in the Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (NAHSIT children 2001-2002).