Volume 6 Issue 2

▪ Keyword : public health, nutrition, Asia Pacific

▪ Content : Editorial

▪ Keyword : nutrition rehabilitation, perception, malnutrition, follow-up, children

▪ Content : Nutrition rehabilitation of malnourished children remains a challenge for health services.

▪ Keyword : change, distribution, mucous gel layer, small intestine, rat

▪ Content : The intraluminal mucous gel layer across the small intestine of rats aged 3 days, 1, 2, 4 and 6 weeks (n=10x5) was studied to investigate its postnatal development.

▪ Keyword : palm olein, lipid peroxidation, products, soya bean oil

▪ Content : The soleus muscles of hyperthyroid rats were used to investigate the effect of palm olein oil and soya bean oil on the production of lipid peroxidation products.

▪ Keyword : individual, group, weight loss

▪ Content : The therapy of obesity is difficult and success rates are low.

▪ Keyword : nutrition, cardiovascular disease, Asia Pacific

▪ Content : Changes in the dietary intake patterns of countries in the Asia Pacific region are considered in relation to trends of cardiovascular disease mortality.

▪ Keyword : ACNS National Meeting, 1996

▪ Content : The ACNS Meeting was held in Sydney on the 30th September, 1996.

▪ Keyword : book, review

▪ Content : The Clinical Evaluation of a Food Additive: Assessment of Aspartame

▪ Keyword : Olympia, nutrition, fitness, Ancient Olympia

▪ Content : The International Conferences on Nutrition and Fitness are held in Greece every four years in the spring prior to the Olympic Games.

▪ Keyword : group, dietary counselling, NIDDM, Malaysia

▪ Content : A study was undertaken in FELDA (Federal Land Development Authority) resettlement scheme areas in Pahang, Malaysia, to determine the effectiveness of group dietary counselling in motivating diabetic patients to achieve good dietary habits, and weight and diabetes control.

▪ Keyword : peptide, digestion, absorption, amino acid, concentration

▪ Content : An oligopeptide preparation and an amino acid mixture with an identical composition were administered intraduodenally to a patient with a catheter in the portal vein, and blood samples were collected over time from the portal vein, and a peripheral vein to investigate amino acid digestion and absorption.

▪ Keyword : dry mixing, large scale, production, iodine fortified salt, India

▪ Content : Dry mixing technique was used successfully in three factories in India for the manufacture of iodine fortified salt.

▪ Keyword : iodine, salt, India

▪ Content : Iodine is an essential micronutrient, deficiency of which causes a number of disorders including goitre and cretinism.

▪ Keyword : nutritional factors, carcinoma, case-control

▪ Content : A case control study was conducted on 170 patients with oesophageal cancer.

▪ Keyword : capsaicin, variety, Indonesia, chilies

▪ Content : Chilies are widely used in Asian and Meso-American culinary tradition.

▪ Keyword : body mass index, predictor, body fat, Chinese, Dutch

▪ Content : The relation between body mass index (kg/m2) and body fat from body density was compared in a group of Chinese and Dutch healthy subjects in relation to sex and age.