Volume 1 Issue 3

▪ Keyword : review, book

▪ Content : Nutrition in developmental transition in South-East Asia. Editor C. Gopalan. World Health Organization, Regional Office of South-East Asia, New Delhi, 1992.

▪ Keyword : tocotrienol, tocopherol, physiological concentration, Caucasian, Japanese

▪ Content : A sensitive, specific and simple method for simultaneous evaluation of tocopherol and tocotrienol isomers in human serum by normal phase HPLC with a fluorescence detector has been developed.

▪ Keyword : trends, dietary implications, non-communicable diseases, Malaysia

▪ Content : Non-communicable diseases with dietary implications, ischaemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus and cancers of the breast and colon are discussed in relation to their prevalence and mortality rates in peninsular Malaysia during the past few decades.

▪ Keyword : soluble dietary fibre, Thai, sweet basil seed, body composition

▪ Content : Twenty obese patients, two males and 18 females, with a mean age of 41.7+-3.2 years and body mass index (BMI) of 31.8 +- 3.8 kg/m2, were enrolled in a 16-week study to evaluate the usefulness and limitations of treatment with a sweet basil seed (Ocimum canum, Sims) extract. For 16-week (wk0-wk16), they were instructed to reduce their usual energy intake.

▪ Keyword : glutamine, oral administration, elemental diet, small intestinal injury, X-ray radiation

▪ Content : Glutamine was administered orally to rats with damaged small intestinal mucosa as the result of injury by X-ray radiation at 10 Gy to the abdomen. The healing effects of glutamine on the injured mucosa were studied serially from the day of radiation (Day 0) to Day 4. The rats received two types of isocaloric elemental diet, Gln(+) containing 2% glutamine and Gln(-) containing no glutamine, by paired feeding.

▪ Keyword : obesity, management

▪ Content : The management of obesity requires acknowledgement of its heterogencity. This derives from differences in pathogenesis, in genetic and psychological background, in physical activity, in food intake, and its aspects of lifestyle like cigarette smoking; as well as in degree, fat distribution, stability, and in consequences and associated disease.