Volume 4 Supplement

▪ Keyword : nutrition, fitness

▪ Content : The International Symposium on Nutrition and Fitness held around this theme in Beijing, 17-18 October 1994, provoked a good deal of review and re-thinking about the conjunction between physical activity and nutritional status.

▪ Keyword : diet, dental caries

▪ Content : Dental caries prevalence is on the increase in transitional societies in the same way as chronic non-communicable diseases, having been largely controlled in developed societies.

▪ Keyword : nutrition, metaphysics, food

▪ Content : With respect for the differences between and among nations, there are universal principles on which public health nutrition policy should be based.

▪ Keyword : dietary recommendation, guideline

▪ Content : There is a growing interest in nutritional and non-nutritional factors which affect the various stages of life in different ways and how these factors, operative in one stage, have their consequences in later stages.

▪ Keyword : recommended dietary allowances, growth, development, performance

▪ Content : Sufficient scientific evidence has accumulated in our understanding of the impact of the quality of the diet during growth and development to suggest changes in the RDAs.

▪ Keyword : nutrient intakes, China, children and adolescent, growth and development

▪ Content : Considerable improvement has taken place in the growth and development of children and adolescents in China since 1949, and even since 1931, with the notable exception of war-time.

▪ Keyword : dietary pattern, physical development, China, 1992 national nutrition survey

▪ Content : Based on information gathered in the 1992 Chinese national nutrition survey, the energy consumption on average is about adequate for the whole population.

▪ Keyword : eating patterns, China

▪ Content : China has shifted its dietary patterns because of economic change.

▪ Keyword : physical activity, nutrition, health, China

▪ Content : The significance of physical activity for fitness is that it may change risk factors for chronic disease and improve functional and psychological status.

▪ Keyword : nutrition, exercise

▪ Content : The ability to perform exercise is impaired if the diet is inadequate.

▪ Keyword : food selection, guidance, physically active

▪ Content : The everyday nutritional goals of athletes and physically active people reflect the special, and often increased nutrient requirements arising from the commitment to regular exercise, as well as the practical challenges of achieving these goals in a busy lifestyle