Volume 2 Issue 1

▪ Keyword : food intake, clinical practice

▪ Content : Editorial

▪ Keyword : nutrition, HIV

▪ Content : Nutritional status may have an impact at all stages of HIV disease. Many of the clinical features of HIV infection cause nutritional problems and may also be exacerbated by the presence of malnutrition. Inadequate food intake, due to a wide variety of aetiologies, malabsorption and altered metabolism, may all contribute to malnutrition.

▪ Keyword : anthropometry, elderly, field setting, developing countries

▪ Content : A field setting can be defined as any setting outside of a fixed, permanent, and sophisticated health facility or research laboratory. The most important applications of anthropometry at field level include biology anthropology, epidemiology, clinical application, and metabolic research.

▪ Keyword : sodium, potassium, adults, Australia

▪ Content : Australia has had an official guideline for the last ten years, that people should aim to consume less than 100 mmol sodium per day (equivalent to 6.0 g NaCl). The only practical way of estimating sodium intake is from the 24-h urinary sodium excretion.

▪ Keyword : diet, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, Nauruan

▪ Content : Cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between diet and non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM) were assessed in Nauruan adults to determine if a particular component of the diet contributed to the high prevalence of NIDDM in this population.

▪ Keyword : nutrition, health, aborigines, Kooris

▪ Content : Prior to European settlement of Australia, the health of Aboriginal people was probably better than that of the Europeans. In the past 200 years there has been a considerable improvement in the health of non-Aboriginal Austsralians, and a deterioration in the health of Aborigines. Some improvement in Aboriginal health has occurred in recent times. The Aboriginal people who live in Victoria are known as Kooris.